{"id":950,"date":"2007-05-24T12:46:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T17:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/looking-for-clues-when-you-should-assess\/"},"modified":"2007-05-24T12:46:30","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T17:46:30","slug":"looking-for-clues-when-you-should-assess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/looking-for-clues-when-you-should-assess\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Looking For Clues&quot; When You Should Assess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of these articles get frustrating in that many of these errors can be avoided with a proper hiring process.&nbsp; From Inc.com&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/inc\/headlines\/~3\/119193635\/0523jobs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Employers Often Misread Job Applicants<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Similarly, out of 400 human resource managers polled, <strong>59 percent said they have misjudged an applicant as being a good fit for the company, while 85 percent said they had lost an employee that simply wasn&#8217;t suited to the firm&#8217;s work environment<\/strong>, the survey found. <\/p>\n<p>According to Diane Domeyer, executive director of OfficeTeam, the interview is a prime opportunity for job seekers to assess the organization. &#8220;The interview is a two-way street,&#8221; Domeyer said in a statement. &#8220;<strong>Employers are looking for clues to an applicant&#8217;s work ethic and personality<\/strong>, and job seekers want to learn more about the company culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Looking for clues&#8221; about personality are hiring approaches that lead to 59% misjudgments of applicants.&nbsp; At a minimum, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Assessing_Main.html\" target=\"_blank\">objectively assessing candidates<\/a> removes the need to spend interviewing time to formulate guesses regarding a candidate&#8217;s personality. <\/p>\n<p>Candidates are on their best behavior during an interview.&nbsp; Most of them are adapting their behavior to appear more compliant than they truly are.&nbsp; That is one reason why trying to discern their personality during the interview is high risk and often inaccurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of these articles get frustrating in that many of these errors can be avoided with a proper hiring process.&nbsp; From Inc.com&#8217;s Employers Often Misread Job Applicants: Similarly, out of 400 human resource managers polled, 59 percent said they have misjudged an applicant as being a good fit for the company, while 85 percent said they had lost an employee that simply wasn&#8217;t suited to the firm&#8217;s work environment, the survey found. According to Diane Domeyer, executive director of OfficeTeam, the interview is a prime opportunity for job seekers to assess the organization. &#8220;The interview is a two-way street,&#8221; Domeyer said in a statement. &#8220;Employers are looking for clues to&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/looking-for-clues-when-you-should-assess\/\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessing","category-hiring"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-fk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1395,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/01\/the-wrong-stuff\/","url_meta":{"origin":950,"position":0},"title":"The Wrong Stuff","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Are you aware of all of the interview questions being asked behind close doors at your company?\u00a0 There are many hiring managers who are unaware of what constitutes a good interview questions. 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