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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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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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Recruiting older workers

rightpeople — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:45:41 +0000

Making the right decisions for your business An important consideration when recruiting older workers is to consider what their strengths and weaknesses are likely to be in terms of their cognitive abilities (thinking abilities or intelligence). By using the right mix of psychometric tests you can easily and quickly identify what type of work older […]

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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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Job performance in the global economy: how the meaning of job performance varies cross-culturally

rightpeople — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 03:54:59 +0000

In the Australian work context, together with other similar individualistic Western countries (such as the USA and UK), job performance is typically assessed in terms of task (in-role) behaviour – i.e., how well an employee performs their duties; organisational citizenship behaviour – i.e., going ‘above and beyond’ role requirements such as helping other employees with their workload; and counterproductive […]

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Research shows: cognitive tests strongly predict job performance

rightpeople — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:17:39 +0000

A meta-analysis conducted in the United Kingdom (Bertua, Anderson & Salgado, 2005) has found that intelligence tests and tests of specific cognitive abilities are strong, reliable and valid predictors of both job performance and response to training. Operational validities are in the range of .5-.6, meaning that these cognitive tests can account for approximately 30% of the variance in job performance […]

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Surveys could be key to cutting staff turnover

rightpeople — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 06:24:42 +0000

Recent research has found that up to 80% of staff turnover can be better controlled by organisations by improving their understanding of employee needs, employee-organisational fit and workplace culture. The research, which included over 11,000 employees from 40 Australian organisations, was based on exit survey responses from employees who left their organisations between January 2011 and April 2012. It […]

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Attention: employers of skilled migrants

rightpeople — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 05:15:33 +0000

Australia’s immigration policy had long focused largely on accepting highly-skilled migrants. Seeking workers with outstanding skills and qualifications that are lacking in Australia aims to address specific skill shortages and enhances the size and skill level of the Australian labour force. In the 2012-13 period Australia accepted approximately 190,000 migrants. 68 percent of these, or almost 130,000 were skilled migrants. […]

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