Research Paper Title Should We End Military Recruitment High Schools as a Matter of Child Protection and Public Health? Abstract Recruiters for the various US armed forces have free access to the nation’s high schools, as mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act. Military recruiter behaviours are disturbingly similar to predatory grooming. Adults in… Read More
The Pentagon’s Child Recruiting Strategy (for the Military)
Dr Gary Evans writes a very interesting piece about the US Military’s recruitment and selection strategy, highlighting some of the tactics they use and the legal exemptions they have been granted. If you are interested in the contemporaneous debate on data privacy concerning US and UK intelligence agencies, then you may be interested in some… Read More
Take a Recruitment Risk
An excerpt from Iain Mackinnon’s blog (www.peoplemanagement.co.uk): “If you’re casting Hamlet, do you take the same approach as “regular” recruiters? A play-it-safe, same-as-last time recruiter would look at David Tennant’s CV and conclude that his spell as Doctor Who was about as irrelevant as it gets to finding a great stage Hamlet. But you’d have… Read More
Psychometric Testing: How Useful Is It?
“There’s some value in it. It can help you compare people in certain limited ways. But it depends more on people’s ability to crack the code than anything else. It helps you identify smart people, which is always useful, but what’s smart about them is that they can pick patterns in a test. The other… Read More
Assessment Centres: The Gold Standard (Well Sort of)
Assessment Centres are considered the gold, if somewhat expensive, standard for selecting candidates for a job or role. However, there are perils if you do not know what you are doing, as demonstrated below. An excerpt from People Management (p.23): “The employer had developed a candidate assessment centre with exercises that scored people according to… Read More
The Future of Hiring?
Online gaming ‘helps predict candidates future job performance’. The future of recruitment lies in hiring for ‘predicted performance in role’ rather than judging a candidate on past skills or competencies. However, to do this HR would need to radically shift its thinking around how it assesses candidates and embrace online gaming or ‘gamification’. Apparently the trouble… Read More
Are You A Deceiver?
UK organisations are flooded with applications from willing candidates, leaving employers to separate the wheat from the chaff (the CIPD’s recent Labour Market Outlook reported an average of 45 applications for each vacancy). Experienced recruiters therefore become the coveted custodians of one of the most important talent management strategies. Worryingly, a study from the Journal… Read More
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