Psychosocial risks arise as a consequence of deficiencies in the design, organization, and management of work. When it comes to working, the term "psychosocial risk" refers to aspects concerning the social environment and the design and management of tasks that can be potentially harmful to the worker. Both on a psychological and physical level, such as work-related stress and musculoskeletal disorders resulting from long-term stress....
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As the COVID-19 pandemic forces more people (including recruiters) to work remotely, remote job interviews are becoming increasingly common. However, this is something that could intimidate even the most experienced recruiter. It happens because, while the fundamentals of traditional interviewing are still valid for videoconferencing, a remote interview comes with an extra set of challenges and considerations that recruiters must take into account. But no...
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COBOL or Common Business-Oriented Language, as its name indicates, is a high-level programming language for business applications. It was created in 1959 by CODASYL, a consortium of computer industries whose main goal was to regulate the development of a programming language suitable for use in different computers. They based on Rear Admiral Grace Hopper's work on the FLOW-MATIC programming language in the 1940s. It was...
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These days, the COVID-19, or coronavirus, has pushed recruiters to reinvent and make more flexible their recruiting style so that they can continue to carry out recruitment processes without risking the health of its applicants. Therefore, many of these companies have begun to implement a remote recruitment method. If your company has just adopted a flexible work schedule and you are now planning to create...
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Digging through each resume manually is becoming a thing of the past for large companies. Today, recruiters and other human resource professionals are more skilled than ever in the field of technology, and the workforce is becoming younger and more global. Recruitment methods are continually developing, the ones used today are not the same as those of ten or even five years ago. This change...
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Psychometric testing is a common part of the job interview process in many major companies, and even more companies from different countries are choosing to incorporate this type of testing into their selection processes because of the objectivity they possess. The list of large companies that successfully incorporated psychometric testing into their recruitment and selection processes include Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Ernst and Young, Citigroup, E.ON,...
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A psychometric test is a standardized procedure designed to measure people's behavior and describe it using scores or categories. The term "psychometric" comes from the Greek for the words mental and measurement. There are three main areas that psychometric testing explores: the individual's abilities and aptitude for work and determining whether his or her personality fits with the vision of the organization he or she...
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For many startups, hiring their first salesperson can be stressful, as there are many risks when hiring a seller. So, how and where do you start to find a good seller that suits your needs, without putting your reputation and investment at risk? When recruiting sales talent there are two recommended options, these are to search within your immediate network or search outside of it....
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Leadership is an interesting construct that became very popular in the past 20 years. As the industry grew, questions like “Who is a good leader?” and “How to recognize a person with leadership skills?” became more and more common in the community. Reascherces, from different backgrounds, like psychology, sociology, and political science, tried to explain and leadership characteristics and predict the behavior of a good...
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Honesty and Ethics testing, also known as “Integrity testing” started back in the ’80s when companies and managers noticed there is a need for predicting behavioral patterns at work. Integrity tests were first called the paper and pencil honesty tests because they were written as the name suggests, with paper and pen. Paper and pencil tests are made as an alternative for polygraph testing because...
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