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Get Your Game On! – Three Questions about Your Candidate Experience.
July 31, 2012 by William Frierson
Joe Murphy of Shaker Consulting Group
Game designer and TED presenter Jane McGonigal had an article in the January 22, 2011 WSJ “Be a Gamer, Save the World.” She states we (the royal We) spend three billion hours a week gaming. The average 18 year old spends 80 minutes a day gaming and extreme gamers spend up to 45 hours per week connected to a digitally delivered challenge. The quick lesson here is that engaging experiences hold our attention. The first question is: What kind of engagement does your candidate experience deliver?
Charles Handler, in his Candidate Bill of Rights suggests a candidate assessment should last no more than 30 minutes. Is that to free up time for gaming? Or is that because the assessments he is thinking about are a form of torture. Maybe he is seeking to limit the pain of a putting a candidate through poorly designed on-line assessments. He wants to limit (but not ban)– Applitorture. Or, the degree to which the applicant is subjected to mental or physical anguish from the act of applying for a job. Continue Reading
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Hitting the Ground Running
November 28, 2008 by Candice ASurvey Shows Increasing Productivity Top Challenge For New Financial Managers
There is no performance grace period for the president-elect in his first 100 days, nor for new financial managers, who are expected to produce results immediately, a new survey suggests. Nearly one-third (30 percent) of chief financial officers (CFOs) interviewed cited increasing productivity as the top challenge faced in their first 100 days on the job. Boosting profitability was the second most common response, cited by one in five (20 percent) executives.
The survey was developed by Robert Half Management Resources and conducted by an independent research firm. It was based on telephone interviews with more than 1,400 CFOs across the United States.
