Missed Opportunities to Rescue Dugard Linked to Poor Employee Screening or Poor Pay?

By Michelle Malay Carter on November 5, 2009 

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “State parole agents fell down on the job again and again during the 10 years they supervised sex offender Phillip Craig Garrido, failing to check out clues that could have led to alleged kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard.”? [emphasis mine] Parole Agent Work is Level Two Work If you follow […]

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How to Match People to Roles – It’s Not Just about Personality

By Michelle Malay Carter on March 17, 2009 

“It is as if we are blessed with elegant tiles for a mosaic but have no design.? There are great ideas, insightful bits, and clever pieces but no artist with a plan for turning the assortment into an elegant, integrated picture.” –Beck and Cowan, Spiral Dynamics What is Work? Work is the exercising of judgment […]

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Why Perfect Candidates Still Fail on the Job

By Michelle Malay Carter on June 29, 2008 

Recruiting Effectiveness Metrics I recently read?a blogger proposing that recruiters should be measured not only by how many slots are filled or how quickly the slots are filled, but also by the first year’s performance of the candidates they place.? I agree that how many and how quickly will not tell the whole story, but […]

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Fertile Innovative-Risktaker Recruiting Terrain – A Friday Fascinating

By Michelle Malay Carter on April 3, 2008 

Companies frequently lament the lack of innovators and risk takers within their organizations. Maybe instead of B-schools, recruiters should start hanging out at freestyle motocross events.

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