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Online gaming ‘helps predict candidates future job performance’
June 24, 2013 @ 12:26|0 Comments
Future of hiring outlined at CIPD recruitment conference The future of recruitment lies in hiring for ‘predicted performance in role’ rather than judging a candidate on past skills or competencies, delegates at the CIPD’s recruitment conference heard yesterday. But to do this HR needs to radically shift its thinking around how it assesses candidates and embrace online gaming or ‘gamification’, one speaker said. “The trouble with assessing candidates on their past experience is that it’s not a predictor of future success. It will only tell you how good they were, not give you an idea ...
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Highly Effective Brains
May 24, 2013 @ 05:46|0 Comments
Today in our busy lives we might focus on our physical health but totally neglect our brain fitness. Our brain is responsible for not only undertaking our mental tasks but also helps us carry out physical functions and for that a healthy brain is a prerequisite. Approximately there are 1.1 trillion cells and 100 billion neurons in an average human brain. The slowest information processing speed of a brain is 260 mph. A brain thinks 70,000 thoughts in a day out of which most of them are repeated over and over again, so when the next time you think something take some time to think about y...
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7 habits of higly effective people
May 13, 2013 @ 12:04|0 Comments
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Analysis of the external environment – PESTLE
February 19, 2013 @ 16:01|0 Comments
“Look ahead. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.” Anon The big idea PESTLE analysis is a mechanism for scanning the external environment, or big picture, in which the organisation operates. It has grown in popularity over the last ten years and goes under a variety of acronyms – PEST, STEP, STEEP, STEEPLE, PESTEL. Alongside a SWOT (also included in this stage of the toolkit) the PESTLE is probably one of the most commonly used tools as part of the strategic planning process. It has become so commonplace that its roots are not entirely clear. The earliest mention seems to have come fro...
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Kaoru Ishikawa: One Step Further – Cause & Effect Diagram
February 19, 2013 @ 15:38|0 Comments
Kaoru Ishikawa wanted to change the way people think about work. He urged managers to resist becoming content with merely improving a product's quality, insisting that quality improvement can always go one step further. His notion of company-wide quality control called for continued customer service. This meant that a customer would continue receiving service even after receiving the product. This service would extend across the company itself in all levels of management, and even beyond the company to the everyday lives of those involved. According to Ishikawa, quality improvement is a contin...
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