You might have heard about what Cangrade does: we help businesses hire the best people by uniquely combining predictive analytics with an easy to use candidate management system that automatically grades every candidate, delivers an accurate prediction of future job performance, and lowers hiring costs. This is WHAT we do. I want to take a step beyond that and tell you WHY […]
Who doesn’t like mental shortcuts? Among other things that evolution equipped us with is the ability to judge peoples’ character before ever exchanging a word with them. Revolutions in technology present us with an ever-growing number of new mental shortcuts. In hiring, we may employ all kinds of stereotypes (general beliefs about people that we use as mental shortcuts). Let’s check […]
How do you do it? Is there a right way to do it? Does it all boil down to the famous saying attributed to Steve Jobs: “A people hire A people, B people hire C people”? Obviously there is no easy answer to this question, but we can share some bad news and some good news in that respect. First […]
Labor Day is coming the closest to being our professional holiday, and we are taking a little break from the blogging this week to rest and celebrate. Next week Steve will present us with some ideas about what motivates people at work. Please stay tuned.