Staff turnover is the rate at which an employer gains and loses employees. High turnover is often related to unhappy employees, lack of career opportunities and challenges, dissatisfaction with the job or conflict with management; but it can also indicate unsafe or unhealthy conditions. High turnover rates are always a reason to be alarmed.
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Nowadays, when assessing candidates for a job, soft skills are displacing hard skills as the preferred factors to make a decision. More and more companies are leaving psychometric and projective tests behind (also due to the associated costs and the need to have specialized staff to administer and process them) and relying more on face to face conversations where soft skills can be assessed. Continue reading to find out what the top 5 soft skills are and how to use them in a job interview.
Almost an year has passed since the blog moved from its former -and now defunct- home at WordPress.com. Although some of the most popular articles from Psi Xperience survived the migration, they never caught as much traction as those born in this domain due to the lost PR (page rank) ...
The most effective leaders are those focused on people instead of just goals. Goals are important but many think of people as instruments to achieve them. You can categorize leaders in two big groups. The ‘hard’ ones are those who remain distant to obtain respect and compliance with their directives ...
Posted on Psychologytoday. Nice article. I stripped the questionnaire because I don’t usually agree with 6 item inventory/tests. They remind me of those found in magazines. No standardization, statistic validity or construct validity. The rest is worth reading and makes us think. Are we or are we not transformational leaders? ...
I found this interesting post on Psyblog: “put some random people in a group, give them a task and soon enough a leader will emerge. What is it about that person that makes others grant them the honor of being in charge?” Go to the article clicking here.
