{"id":1493,"date":"2008-04-01T13:50:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T18:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/simulation-training-and-hiring\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T13:48:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T18:48:01","slug":"simulation-training-and-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/simulation-training-and-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Simulation Training And Hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lee and I recently attended certification training for one of the assessments we use and found the training to be quite good.\u00a0 The part that made it memorable is the fact that we were asked to use the assessments in real-life scenarios.\u00a0 That type of training sticks, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Simulation Shows What It’s Like to Be Boss<\/a>:<\/p>\n

That realistic feeling is a big reason companies such as NetApp use simulations to help train managers in complex subjects such as strategic thinking. Experts say adults absorb information better when they use it, not just hear it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There is a quote from earlier in the article that is excellent:<\/p>\n
“You never have perfect information; you never have enough time,” Mr. Tabloski said. “That was particularly real.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Isn’t that true?\u00a0 We see this play out with candidates right now, too.\u00a0 They have other opportunities.\u00a0 Strong salespeople are always in demand no matter what the economy is doing.\u00a0 Some hiring managers want to ruminate about their decision to the point where they lose strong candidates (we’ve had that happen a couple times this year already).<\/p>\n
When you are hiring, you never have perfect information on a candidate.\u00a0 There is always a level of unknown factors that makes hiring so difficult.\u00a0 But you can have more information<\/a> than a resume and your gut feeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lee and I recently attended certification training for one of the assessments we use and found the training to be quite good.\u00a0 The part that made it memorable is the fact that we were asked to use the assessments in real-life scenarios.\u00a0 That type of training sticks, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Simulation Shows What It’s Like to Be Boss: That realistic feeling is a big reason companies such as NetApp use simulations to help train managers in complex subjects such as strategic thinking. Experts say adults absorb information better when they use it, not just hear it. There is a quote from earlier in the article that is… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,16,4,5],"tags":[483,1748,484,1762,482,481],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-o5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}