A useful resource for finding careers and job information on the web.
Browse categories such as recruitment and placement, careers planning and jobs.
Home About Us

Archive for the ‘Career Planning’ Category

Strategic Career Planning For Life Scientists

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

While most successful professionals want you to believe that they “fell into” their current jobs, the truth is that they wouldn’t have made it as far as they had without thinking or divining some type of strategic career plan. The trouble is that many early career professionals buy into this assertion—and rather than chart their own career trajectories—tend to gravitate toward jobs or job titles held by these seemingly successful professionals.

More often than not, these would-be jobseekers have little or no understanding of what their “role models” do on a day-to-day basis as part of their job responsibilities. For example, many graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who I talk with at career development symposia tell me that they want to go into business development or regulatory affairs or management consulting. After they tell me this, I routinely ask “Do you know what the director of business development or a regulatory affairs manager does?” Frequently, these persons have little or no idea about the duties and responsibilities associated with the job choice that they just enunciated to me. Generally speaking, many of these career choices were based on informal discussions with people who hold the job title(s) in question or from information gleaned from career development talks offered by people like me.

.Reference resource: Click Here.

Employee Personality Assessment

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Most of the companies still use traditional methods of hiring such as, interviews, resume reviews, background screening, etc. HR professionals still follow the several, decades old pattern of personality assessments but in a quicker and efficient way, which will yield accurate results. Employee assessments tools are extremely beneficial in realizing the results are quantifiable and go a long way in ascertaining the work style and behavioral attributes of potential employees before they set foot into your company. In-fact they take out the guesswork involved in recruiting the employees who can work together.

Suppose you have shortlisted two candidates for a job. Both of them are well qualified and possess all the technical expertise needed for the job. Whom will you choose to fill up the vacancy? Personality assessment tests will help you to ascertain their non-technical qualities through a series of questions and enable you to judge the work style of a person, ability to work in a team, judgment power and goal orientation.

The major benefit of the assessment tools is not confined to the hiring process, but also used as an effective tool of employee retention. The assessment tool will identify the gap between employee work style and job needs. They provide you a road map for recruitment of prospective employees and the further development of essential traits such as, leadership ability, individual development, team communications and conflict resolution. It will also help the employees to make better, satisfying and successful career choices.

Nowadays, employee personality assessment tool is absolutely tailor made for clients to choose the types of behaviors that are most significant for their particular jobs and work culture of the organization. More and more companies are using these tests to hire skilled and reliable employees. Use Pro.file pre employment and employee personality assessment tests to improve organizational performance. Assess and align staff behavior to achieve optimal performance!

Pro.file Performance System™ is a world class behavioral assessment and development technology designed to help build high performance organizations. Through a combination of insightful executive education, proprietary assessment technology and experienced consulting input, they help organizations to more effectively and consistently recruit, retain, develop and manage their human resources. By aligning an individual’s natural thinking, behaviors and motivation to your specific positions and organizational culture, a higher level of performance, productivity and positive morale results.