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Check out O*Net - A great Free HR Online Resource
If you don’t already know about it, you need to pay an online visit to O*Net, the nation’s primary source of occupational information. The O*NET database contains information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors. The database, which is free to access, is continually updated by surveying a broad range of workers. O*NET Online, an interactive application for exploring and searching occupations. The database also provides Career Exploration Tools, a set of valuable assessment instruments for workers and students looking to find or change careers.

Start Managing Using Your Sales Team’s Talents & Stop Focusing on Their Weaknesses
From you role in sales management, do you manage from a perspective focusing on existing talents or from a weakness one? If you truthfully answered from a more negative than positive focus, then can you answer this question?: Why do winning teams win because of their strengths or their weaknesses? Now is the team to change your management style especially if you wish to increase sales and have a high performance sales team.

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Data Collection? Save Yourself the Trouble.
Why pay your consultant or internal project team to spend up front time collecting data that will only burn up hours (and fees) and inhibit the solution that you so sorely need? The time to collect data is during the assessment of the solution, not during the assessment of the problem.
Helping SMEs meet the requirements of formal financing - Increasing SME Access to Finance: A Four Pronged Approach
Apart from the need to boost SME capacities, some financial instruments can help provide missing information or reduce the risk stemming from some SMEs’ lack of transparency.
Employee Testing and Assessments
According to the US Department of Labor all assessment tools used to make employment decisions are subject to professional and legal standards. For example, both the evaluation of a resume and the use of a highly standardized achievement test must comply with applicable laws. Assessment tools used solely for career exploration or counseling are usually not held to the same legal standards.
Did You Know Emotional Words Affect Our Judgment?
Is your success related to persuading, influencing and convincing other folks? New neuroscience shows how our facial expressions are powerful instruments you should know about. Check it out.
Benchmarking your Core Competencies
All organizations claim to have “core competencies” but few actually benchmark their capabilities to track and measure improvements over time. Take the time to evaluate your business from a high-level, and commit to continuous improvement. Use Demand Metric’s Core Competencies Assessment to set a baseline for your organization, and work to improve your score before your next self-assessment.
Risk Assessment & Analysis Techniques
Risk assessment is an area of concern for all senior executives, but many mid-sized enterprises do not have the skills, processes, or tools to effectively mitigate risks. Instead of reactively ‘fire-fighting’ and dealing with issues as they arise, consider adding simple risk assessment & analysis exercises to your project planning process. Download & customize Demand Metric’s Risk Assessment Tool, Risk Mitigation Checklist, and Risk Analysis (Fishbone) Tool, and add to your skills arsenal.
Check out O*Net - A great Free HR Online Resource
If you don’t already know about it, you need to pay an online visit to O*Net, the nation’s primary source of occupational information. The O*NET database contains information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors. The database, which is free to access, is continually updated by surveying a broad range of workers. O*NET Online, an interactive application for exploring and searching occupations. The database also provides Career Exploration Tools, a set of valuable assessment instruments for workers and students looking to find or change careers.

Case History - Sneak Preview of a Candidate
It never ceases to amaze me when clients receive nasty-grams from sales candidates who are - let's call it put-off - by the client's request that they first take our on-line assessment. The candidates receive a very nice email thanking them for sending their resume, explaining the client's recruiting process and asking them to take the assessment. You just wouldn't believe some of the notes I've seen. Name calling, cussing, threats, sarcasm, and more. Here's a typical sample:
The 360 Degree Trap
Many organizations use a 360 Degree Assessment to measure the effectiveness of leaders. I have always been a proponent of this method as it provides vital information required to improve leadership and build trust. There is a potential trap in this method if the assessment is strongly linked to compensation.
10 Reasons - Don't Worry When Sales Candidates Don't Take the Test
We instruct clients to have their sales candidates take the Sales Candidate assessment very early in the recruiting process. It's the first step after the client receives their resumes. Clients carefully spell out exactly how the entire process will work and explain that the assessment is simply the first step. Recent statistics show that only 34% of the candidates are taking the assessment without additional prompts. Isn't that awful? Maybe - let's explore it further. We should consider that the following ten scenarios are all possible reasons why candidates fail to complete the assessment:
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