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The Benefits of Personality Testing When Hiring

rightpeople — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 12:08:44 +0000

One of the best ways to assess employees is with personality tests. Read on to learn about the benefits of employee personality testing. Have you ever heard the expression “It takes a village to raise a child?” It applies to workplaces as well. It takes all sorts of people and types of thinkers to produce […]

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Microsoft Word Matters – Most Popular Corporate Software

rightpeople — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 02:26:35 +0000

“After Web browsers Word is the most-used app on the planet; it’s still the platinum standard in word processing. Nothing else even comes close” (PCMag, March 2013). Microsoft Word is a word processing program developed by Microsoft.” It’s been in existence since 1983, and since that time has undergone 14 revisions, the most recent being Word […]

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Multitasking Ability and Intelligence

rightpeople — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 04:06:10 +0000

When dividing attention between two tasks (Multitasking), people need to find the most efficient ways of allocating their attentional or processing resources between the tasks. It is reasonable to presume that people with higher levels of intelligence will be better able to allocate their processing resources efficiently. This was investigated in a study by Ben-Shakhar […]

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Personality Factors – Importance of the Big 5

rightpeople — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 08:05:30 +0000

In the world of personality assessment there are numerous tools that are used to measure and understand personality. A trait approach to personality has been in existence since the early 1900’s, and it has been the aim of many researchers to identify which are the most useful underlying factors to consider – with numerous studies dedicated […]

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Ambiverts, Extraverts, and Sales Job Performance

rightpeople — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 04:41:49 +0000

In this article we look at Ambiverts, Extraverts, and Sales Job Performance and announce the new Accounts Payable and Receivable Test Sales Aptitude Personality Research Article Highlights Extraversion vs Introversion is one of the most studied personality dimensions. It was a long-held belief that extraversion would “take a person further” in business, particularly in sales. […]

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Time Management Scale – The Utility of ATOMS

rightpeople — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 03:29:16 +0000

The importance of effective time management skills in the workplace has been highlighted by issues including increasing workloads, less funding and greater diversity in the client base. A situation has been created where health professionals need to achieve more in less time, making good time management skills essential. The importance of these skills has been endorsed by […]

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Employee Engagement Essential in Professional Services Firms

rightpeople — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 08:30:55 +0000

The importance of employee engagement has been discussed in previous posts. Recent research indicates that nowhere is employee engagement more important than in professional services firms. While these firms are necessarily primarily client focused, ultimately the success of professional services firms relies on the success of their employees’ work. And the most successful employees are […]

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Multimedia and multi-tasking

rightpeople — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 05:54:49 +0000

Brunken and colleagues (2002) investigated multi-media learning and the processes that make it work. In two experiments they showed that the multimedia format facilitates learning through the processes of the dual coding effect and the modality effect. The dual coding effect refers to the effect by which learning is improved when related pictures are presented […]

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Speed, working memory and ageing

rightpeople — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 05:20:54 +0000

Numerous authors have examined the relationship between speed of processing, working memory and age, and debated the role of these concepts in understanding individual differences in cognitive ability. There are arguments as to the relative contributions of both concepts, and most theorists tend to agree that slowing is the explanation for cognitive decline. Using tasks […]

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Tips when hiring a casual workforce

rightpeople — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 05:29:19 +0000

Over 2 million Australians, or 1 in 4 workers, are classified as casual workers. A spokesperson from the ACTU described the trend in the increase in casual workers, or ‘casualisation’ of the workforce as “one of the dominant trends in the Australian workplace during the past decade”. Much has been written about the casualisation of the workforce and there are […]

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