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Nov 11, 2024 | 
hrheadquarters.ie | Lou Adler
by Lou Adler, CEO and founder of The Adler GroupThere is a growing corporate trend to deprioritise DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives. Even respected institutions like SHRM seem to be aligning with this movement. I believe this is misguided. The issue is not the need to eliminate diversity hiring programs because they’re ineffective, but rather how these programs are implemented.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
hrheadquarters.ie | Lou Adler
by Lou Adler, CEO and founder of The Adler GroupIn today’s competitive job market, organisations must refine their hiring processes to ensure they select the best candidates while minimising biases. A “Refereed Panel Interview,” using a performance-based interview format, offers a structured and effective approach to achieve these goals. This method involves one leader asking the major questions while panelists seek clarification without changing the topic.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
hrheadquarters.ie | Lou Adler
by Lou Adler, CEO and founder of The Adler GroupThe process of hiring the right person has always been a balance of assessing technical skills and finding candidates who fit into a company’s culture, pace, and values. For decades, recruiters and hiring managers have struggled with how to achieve both – hiring people who not only excel at the job but also thrive within the company’s unique work environment. A new generation of AI-powered tools like GPT is poised to change the game.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
hrheadquarters.ie | Lou Adler
by Lou Adler, CEO and founder of The Adler GroupBehavioral event interviewing (BEI) has long been a staple in hiring practices, with its proponents arguing that past behavior is the best predictor of future performance using the STAR interviewing techniques (Situation, Task, Action, Result). The premise is simple: by asking candidates to recount specific instances where they demonstrated key competencies, interviewers can gain insights into how they will handle similar situations in the future.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
hrheadquarters.ie | Lou Adler
by Lou Adler, CEO and founder of The Adler GroupInterviewers often make the yes/no hiring decision is less than one minute based on whether the person is articulate, attractive, assertive, and affable. None of these predict job success. They just cause hiring mistakes. Over the years I’ve written a number of posts about the Performance-based Interview process I’ve been using for the past 40 years.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
hrheadquarters.ie | Lou Adler
by Lou Adler, CEO and founder of The Adler GroupIn a LinkedIn Influencer post I introduced a concept called Career Zones – Why Working in Zone 1 is So Inspiring. The concept is summarised in the graphic below. The Career Zone curve represents growth and impact over time. Job satisfaction tends to decline as time goes by due to a reduction in personal growth and learning. This is shown by the flattening of the curve. As job satisfaction declines, job-hunting activity increases.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
hrheadquarters.ie | Lou Adler
by Lou Adler, CEO and founder of The Adler GroupOn my first search assignment for a plant manager for an automotive products company the President of the group handed me an almost traditional job description. The almost part was that it was hand-written. The traditional part was that it was filled with the standard jargon listing skills, experience, academic requirements and the omnipresent “must have” competency, “be results driven.”This happened in January 1978.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
hrheadquarters.ie | Lou Adler
by Lou Adler, CEO and founder of The Adler GroupSherlock Holmes is a master of deduction: Using evidence to determine the crime and the criminal. Surprisingly, this same objective evidence-based approach can be used to interview a candidate for just about any skill, trait or competency. In an earlier post, I demonstrated how Sherlock as the hiring manager interviewed a person for technical competency by examining the projects the person was assigned to handle.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
hrheadquarters.ie | Lou Adler
by Lou Adler, CEO and founder of The Adler GroupAccording to ChatGPT everyone can now be in the top third despite the mathematical absurdity. These are people who are more motivated, more satisfied, more productive, stronger team players and more flexible. Here’s all you need to do to get started. When opening any new requisition, be sure to ask this question:What are the top 4-5 things a person needs to do to be successful in this role?
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
hrheadquarters.ie | Lou Adler
by Lou Adler, CEO and founder of The Adler GroupI’ve always found it odd – maybe even dumb – to hire people based on their skills and depth of experience without telling them much about the job until they start. Then to determine if they are good or not after they’re hired, we assess them on their performance doing some job they weren’t assessed on. To address this obvious flaw in the hiring process, I created this LinkedIn course on integrating performance management into the hiring process.
