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Article: Train for smarter hiring: train hiring managers to communicate their needs to HR as well as to ask candidates probing questions.(Training & Development Agenda)
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- HRMagazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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Hiring a new employee can be like making a high-stakes gamble: Will your newest worker turn out to be a fantastic addition or a fantastic failure?
Some companies, however, unwilling to gamble with their future productivity, are taking steps to train hiring managers and otherwise improve the hiring process.
"Our industry--public accounting--is extremely competitive for talent," says Juli Hicks, SPHR, HR manager at Brockman, Coats, Gedelian & Co., an accounting firm in Akron, Ohio. "We needed to have more depth in our interviewing and a better ability to identify and attract talent that fits into our culture. We identified seven core competencies every ...