These companies are in all kinds of different industries and wanted help to find candidates in functions such as Accounting, Finance, HR, Sales, Marketing, Purchasing, Production, C-Suite, Supply Chain, Projects,…
Have you ever used a coin, heads or tails, to help you decide? Using a coin is a form of decision making which inherently has just two possible outcomes. Not…
Blind dates are sometimes good, usually bad, and always weird at the beginning. So are many interviews between a candidate and a hiring company. If you have never been on…
Welcome to the Club. It’s a club of Hiring Managers and recruiters who are desperately looking to hire a new breed of Sales Managers. I attended a networking event yesterday…
Tom Sorensen has joined NPAworldwide. It's a US based firm that has connected independent executive search and recruiting firms all over the world for over 50 years. NPAworldwide is the…
Well, what does this crystal ball say about the candidate you are about to hire? We all know that hiring people is a calculated risk. But how do you “calculate”…
I’m a headhunter. I help clients find candidates they can’t. I live in Bangkok and assist clients all over the world to find, convince, assess, and recruit candidates for management…
The Predictive Index assessment tools help you select the best candidates and applicants. You can stop guessing; stop trusting your guts, and stop being an amateur hiring manager.
Even small and medium-sized companies can now use the same tools that the world’s largest multinational and conglomerates have done successfully for years and years. (more…)
Bad hiring practises ruin your company’s image and brand. Full stop! Why do top executives let this happen?
The short answer is no and never! Using your gut is similar to scratching the surface of something; to examine and discover only the superficial aspects of something or in this case a candidate. You would be better off flipping a coin; at least you have 50% chance of getting it right.
We call it the Four A Syndrome, because when you trust your gut, you are assessing a candidate’s presentation skills over business performance and substance. The four A’s are: (more…)