Mel Kleiman TOPICS: Business Human Resources Management Employee Relations FEE CATEGORY:* 5.0k to 10.0k TRAVELS FROM: Texas Video Profile Program Outlines Testimonials/Client List Request This Speaker

Mel Kleiman: Program Outlines

Achievement-Based Interviewing/Evidence-Based Selection
Every company has a hiring system, and every system gives 100% of what it's designed to give. Most hiring systems don't work, as evidenced by reports from the U.S. Department of Labor that 50% of all new employees quit or are fired within their first six months on the job.

Since no one intentionally hires the wrong person or a quitter, why are so many wrong employees and quitters being hired?

Because most companies have not developed an interviewing and hiring system, the ones that have use behavioral interviewing as their gold standard and far too few companies spend enough time verifying the information applicants provide about themselves.

Over the past 10 years, companies have come to rely much too heavily on behavioral interviewing, which screen candidates in highly predictable ways and encourages hiring decisions based more on applicants' presentations of their abilities and histories rather than on actual evidence of their achievements.

Of itself, behavioral interviewing isn't a bad technique. But a huge problem developed after a myriad books, articles and computer programs taught job seekers how to give the answers interviewers want to hear. Now, hiring research shows that most job applicants know what questions will be asked and how to answer them before they even leave home for the interview.

The result is that too many companies hire great applicants instead of great employees, and too few interviewers know how to recognize a "bad apple" when they see one.

The solution lies in switching to a hiring system solidly built on achievement-based interviewing and evidence-based selection, a system based on evidence of applicants' abilities and achievements that produces reliably good and replicable results.

Hire Tough, Manage Easy
A few years ago, most companies were content just to fill their available positions with a warm body, any body, but times have changed. Today, when most companies are trying to do more with less, employees and the skills and knowledge they possess have become a company�s greatest resources.

Learning and using the best recruiting and hiring systems, tools and techniques is more important today than ever before. If you hire the wrong people, it won�t matter how they are managed or who is managing them. This presentation shows how hiring tough makes managing easy!

Hiring tough means hiring the best and brightest people available, those applicants who are best qualified to help your company prosper and grow. Hiring and retaining the best will set your company above your competitors and give you an enormous advantage in your marketplace.

Managing easy means that you and your managers can put your energies toward growing your business because managing your employees is no longer your major concern.

Tools Tips and Techniques for Hiring and Retaining Top Talent
American productivity has skyrocketed during the past couple of years. Fewer American workers now produce more goods of higher quality at a lower price than ever before. Doing more with less means that companies must hire the best.

How well will your company perform in the race to hire top talent? Will you gallop boldly to the front of the field, successfully hold your lead and cross the finish line in first place�or lag behind while your competition wins?

Top talented employees have more job opportunities today than they�ve had in a long time. Your company needs to use every tool, tip and technique available to identify, target, recruit, hire and retain the best talent.

Do you know how to turn your present employees into your best recruiters? How to quickly separate the gold from the dross when you interview? How to use hiring tools instead of managers� time to hire the best? Which questions will get you the most honest, complete answers?

This fast-paced, 60-to-90 minute presentation will give you the answers to these questions and dozens of others, and show you how to win today�s top talent race.

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