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Field notes on the signals people miss .

42 percent of people who quit say it was preventable
HR Tech Trends

42 percent of people who quit say it was preventable

Four in 10 leavers think someone could have kept them.

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Your low turnover might be hiding job huggers
HR Tech Trends

Your low turnover might be hiding job huggers

Low turnover is a fact about the market, and the BLS data shows it clearly. Whether the people inside want to be there is a separate question, and no quit-rate dashboard answers it.

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Everyone says they hire for skills. The hiring data disagrees.
HR Tech Trends

Everyone says they hire for skills. The hiring data disagrees.

Employer after employer has announced that a degree is no longer required.

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 Fear of a bad hire is slowing down your hiring
HR Tech Trends

Fear of a bad hire is slowing down your hiring

No hiring team sits down and designs a five-round process. It builds up in layers, each one a reasonable response to something that went wrong. One bad hire adds a skills round.

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The leadership style that works for half your team, and backfires for the other half.
Recruiting

The leadership style that works for half your team, and backfires for the other half.

Assertive, decisive, take-charge leadership gets described as good leadership, almost as a default. The research says it depends entirely on who's being led.

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AI didn't invent resume fraud. It just industrialized it.
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AI didn't invent resume fraud. It just industrialized it.

People have always shaded the truth on a resume. What changed is the scale, the speed, and in some cases, whether the person in the interview is even real.

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AI made applying easier, and hiring harder.
HR Tech Trends

AI made applying easier, and hiring harder.

A few years ago, a recruiter filling a role might have reviewed around a hundred applications. Today, that number is closer to 300 per hire.

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Candidates are mad at AI. False: they're mad at not knowing.
Recruiting

Candidates are mad at AI. False: they're mad at not knowing.

Recent industry research on candidate sentiment found that only 19 percent of candidates want less AI in hiring.

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What is compatibility? The science of fit
Building Product

The eternal search for our other half (and what the science covers)

We don't have the research to tell you who to marry. But the same science tells us a lot about who you should work for.

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Personality test vs. behavior profile: what's the difference?
Building Product

Personality test vs. behavior profile: what's the difference?

These two are not created equal. One can tell you which bikini you should wear (arbitrarily) and the other reads who you are.

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The Dark Triad: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy
Building Product

The Dark Triad: narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and what really predicts bad hires

The famous trio is really a single and ride-along duo. Learn more...

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The sixth personality factor the Big Five forgot
Building Product

The sixth personality factor the Big Five forgot

The Big Five is the model behind most personality research of the last forty years, and it's the model behind most hiring assessments still in use today. But it's missing something...

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