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Tom Brady Is Kinda A Boring Dude (And What That Has To Do With Hiring)

Posted on February 6, 2015 by VoiceGlance
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Tom Brady is regarded as one of the most desirable men on the planet. He is also married to one of the most beautiful women in the world, who is also super rich. Thanks to Sunday’s shocking victory, he’s a four-time Super Bowl champion and is generally considered one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. He has three healthy children, globs of money and is probably the most famous NFL player going. But want to know a secret about him? He’s actually sort of a lame dude. For example, do you know that Tom Brady goes to bed each night at 8:30? 8:30! He has all the money, all …Read more »

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The Scientifically-Proven Best Way To Hire

Posted on February 2, 2015 by VoiceGlance
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Time and time again, we hear the same mantra in business: it is all about getting the right people. No strategy, no piece of technology can overcome bad talent, whereas nothing can hold back the right group of people. That’s a great platitude. But how do you really know who the great people are? Obviously, everyone wants to hire just the best, but if you have a stack of resumes for a position, what’s best way to determine who should get the job? Well, science has provided an answer. In an exhaustive 1998 study by University of Iowa Professor Frank Schmidt and …Read more »

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The Greatest Recruitment Videos. Ever.

Posted on January 29, 2015 by VoiceGlance
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Just about every mid-size-to-large company today has one on their career site: the recruitment video. The vast majority are so alike – stock music, shots of smiling workers, people raving about working there – that they all pretty much blend together. And, for that reason, they become ineffective. We get it, your video says you can move up at your company – but every video says that, so can you really? We get it, your video says your company is a great place to work. But every company’s video says that, so is it really so great? And then, you …Read more »

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Why Big Data Needs To Stay Out Of Creative

Posted on January 23, 2015 by VoiceGlance
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The concept of big data is, like most great ideas, a simple one: get as much information as possible on the market you are trying to reach. Use that information to improve your product and marketing to create the most efficient, most attractive product possible. The main premise is that crowds are smarter than one person. Rather than “trusting your gut” or blindly listening to the highest-ranking person in the room, let the numbers decide. It is the most democratic, most effective method out there. So it should apply to creative, obviously, just like it should apply to any other …Read more »

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The Genius of Google’s Invisibility

Posted on January 21, 2015 by VoiceGlance
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It’s been said that the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. Google is not the devil – far from it, actually. But they’ve pretty much accomplished the same thing: although we use Google every day for nearly everything, it is almost as if it doesn’t exist. And that’s intentional. What? I’ve been reading the book What Would Google Do by Jeff Jarvis and some parts I’ve found particularly fascinating. For example, Jarvis said that when Google was first created, it didn’t care about making money. Instead, all it cared about was getting as many people …Read more »

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Study: The Most Important Characteristic In A CEO Is…

Posted on January 20, 2015 by VoiceGlance
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What’s the most important characteristic in a CEO? Korn Ferry, the world’s largest executive search firm, conducted a study to find out exactly that. And what they found was surprising – the one characteristic that correlated most directly to an executive’s success is… drum roll please… “learning agility”. I’m going to guess the first question that comes to your mind, directly after the eye roll that comes after hearing a quintessential corporate buzzword like “learning agility”, is “what the heck is that”? Well, The Wall Street Journal asked Korn Ferry CEO Gary Burnison that question, and this is what he said: “It comes down …Read more »

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The Two Recruiting Metrics That Actually Are Worth Measuring

Posted on January 19, 2015 by VoiceGlance
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In the mid-2000s, a key metric for customer service reps at Dell Computers was “handle time,” or the amount of time they would spend on the phone with a customer. The concept was it would encourage customer service reps to handle problems quickly. What happened, though, was that it incentivized customer service reps to transfer customers with complex problems to someone else. What was happening was that their personal “handle time” was low, and they graded out well, but the actual amount of time customers spent on the phone went up, as customers wasted hours getting transferred from person to …Read more »

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VoiceGlance Contest: What’s The Best Hiring Advice You Can Give?

Posted on January 16, 2015 by VoiceGlance
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If you could give someone one piece of advice about hiring – just one – what would you say? Have something in mind? Submit it into our contest, and you might just walk away with $50 in Amazon gift cards. Until the end of February, VoiceGlance will be collecting submissions for its “Best Hiring Advice” contest. At that time, we’ll send all the submissions to our esteemed celebrity judge, Todd Raphael.  Todd is best known for his current role as Editor in Chief at ERE.net, one of the most active online communities for recruiters and HR professionals to network, share …Read more »

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Survey: Millennials Lack Entrepreneurial Spirit

Posted on January 16, 2015 by VoiceGlance
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Here’s a pretty shocking and disconcerting trend: less young Americans than ever before are starting their own business. In other words, the so-called millennial generation has a serious lack of the entrepreneurial spirit, a keystone of American mythos. This is bad news for a variety of reasons. Not only are startups a great job-producing engine, they also are the petri dishes where good ideas are born and advance society forward. What makes the trend shocking is that the situation in America today suggests that millennials should be more prone than ever to start their own business. After all, unemployment is high for …Read more »

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The Problem With McDonald’s “As Tasteless As A McRib” Ad

Posted on January 15, 2015 by VoiceGlance
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  Facing their largest drop in sales in at least 10 years, increased competition and protests across the country demanding higher pay for their workers, McDonald’s is in desperate need of some goodwill. Unfortunately, their attempt to build exactly that is going down as well as a Big Mac for a guy with chronic acid reflux. A new McDonald’s ad entitled signs (shown below) is basically a photo gallery of McDonald’s signs after tragedies and marking community events set to perhaps the most tear-inducing music possible. The description of the commercial on the McDonald’s YouTube channel is, “For years, McDonald’s …Read more »

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