Comments for Shaker Consulting Group http://www.shakercg.com/blog Virtual Job Tyout, pre-employment testing and the candidate experience Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:51:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on Alchemy and Algorithms – Recruiting by Ego or Evidence by web recruitment http://www.shakercg.com/blog/2011/03/alchemy-and-algorithms-%e2%80%93-recruiting-by-ego-or-evidence/comment-page-1/#comment-2989 web recruitment Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:51:18 +0000 http://www.shakercg.com/blog/?p=595#comment-2989 Interesting. Not sure I agree 100% on the entire post but overall I would say you hit the nail on the head with it. Great Blog by the way, I'll be adding this to my favourites Interesting. Not sure I agree 100% on the entire post but overall I would say you hit the nail on the head with it. Great Blog by the way, I’ll be adding this to my favourites

]]> Comment on Validation of a Pre-employment Assessment and Crowdsourcing by John McDonnell http://www.shakercg.com/blog/2011/09/validation-of-a-pre-employment-assessment-and-crowdsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-2918 John McDonnell Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:57:51 +0000 http://www.shakercg.com/blog/?p=767#comment-2918 Interesting insights ...would not have tied the gamers news to your business but you show interesting connections. Other company's validation resulting in vanilla candidates is an interesting observation. Differentiation is key ... You correctly observe that also applies in a talent context. Nice article. Interesting insights …would not have tied the gamers news to your business but you show interesting connections. Other company’s validation resulting in vanilla candidates is an interesting observation. Differentiation is key … You correctly observe that also applies in a talent context. Nice article.

]]> Comment on Validation of a Pre-employment Assessment and Crowdsourcing by Joseph P. Murphy http://www.shakercg.com/blog/2011/09/validation-of-a-pre-employment-assessment-and-crowdsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-2910 Joseph P. Murphy Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:57:44 +0000 http://www.shakercg.com/blog/?p=767#comment-2910 Kevin Thanks for the comment. RJPs continue to be a growing source of candidate influence. In fact, there is research on the negative impact of UN-realistic job preview. Conveying an inflated and overly positive image of the organization or job is likely to contribute to an overwhelmed selection system filled with under-fit candidates (Cober, et al., 2003). Kevin
Thanks for the comment. RJPs continue to be a growing source of candidate influence. In fact, there is research on the negative impact of UN-realistic job preview. Conveying an inflated and overly positive image of the organization or job is likely to contribute to an overwhelmed selection system filled with under-fit candidates (Cober, et al., 2003).

]]> Comment on Validation of a Pre-employment Assessment and Crowdsourcing by Kevin Wheeler http://www.shakercg.com/blog/2011/09/validation-of-a-pre-employment-assessment-and-crowdsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-2908 Kevin Wheeler Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:21:57 +0000 http://www.shakercg.com/blog/?p=767#comment-2908 Joe, Nice article. I'll be publishing an ERE article next week on why interviews don't work and talk about RJPs and simulations. Games (or game-like activities) are going to be big part of future branding,assessment, and on-boarding. Joe,

Nice article. I’ll be publishing an ERE article next week on why interviews don’t work and talk about RJPs and simulations. Games (or game-like activities) are going to be big part of future branding,assessment, and on-boarding.

]]> Comment on Gaining Management Acceptance for Assessment Tools by Joseph Murphy http://www.shakercg.com/blog/2011/07/gaining-management-acceptance-for-assessment-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-2762 Joseph Murphy Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:49:57 +0000 http://www.shakercg.com/blog/?p=725#comment-2762 John Miraglia is our first external contributor to the blog, a former client, and professional colleague. He has worked on the implementation of the Virtual Job Tryout for professional postions in the financial services industry. His insight and experience on implementing assessment is highly valued. John Miraglia is our first external contributor to the blog, a former client, and professional colleague. He has worked on the implementation of the Virtual Job Tryout for professional postions in the financial services industry. His insight and experience on implementing assessment is highly valued.

]]> Comment on Music Video Meets Realistic Job Preview by Jared Hooste http://www.shakercg.com/blog/2011/05/music-video-meets-realistic-job-preview/comment-page-1/#comment-2555 Jared Hooste Thu, 26 May 2011 14:30:51 +0000 http://www.shakercg.com/blog/?p=678#comment-2555 It is nice to see that it show the customers and their problems. A candidate can get a good feel for who they will meet, but I didn't see much of what the candidate will actually do other than give hugs, shake hands, and play with cute little kids. I think it is really cool that they got the Verve Pipe to do the video. How many other bands would be willing to put together a cool promotional video. Realistic Job Preview, I wouldn't consider it one. A video I would show applicants definitely. It is nice to see that it show the customers and their problems. A candidate can get a good feel for who they will meet, but I didn’t see much of what the candidate will actually do other than give hugs, shake hands, and play with cute little kids.

I think it is really cool that they got the Verve Pipe to do the video. How many other bands would be willing to put together a cool promotional video. Realistic Job Preview, I wouldn’t consider it one. A video I would show applicants definitely.

]]> Comment on Candidate Experience – How Candidates Want to Learn About Job Content, Part 5 of 6 by BryanB http://www.shakercg.com/blog/2011/04/candidate-experience-how-candidates-want-to-learn-about-job-content/comment-page-1/#comment-2433 BryanB Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:00:36 +0000 http://www.shakercg.com/blog/?p=618#comment-2433 It'd be interesting to see how they responded to actual examples rather than just thinking about them conceptually... It’d be interesting to see how they responded to actual examples rather than just thinking about them conceptually…

]]> Comment on Get Your Game On! – Three Questions about Your Candidate Experience. by Mike http://www.shakercg.com/blog/2011/01/get-your-game-on-three-questions-about-your-candidate-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-1985 Mike Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:08:51 +0000 http://www.shakercg.com/blog/?p=486#comment-1985 Good read - very interesting take on assessments and Virtual Job Tryout. It's important to measure not only the individual but also the context because if the candidate works with other people assessments ought to be able to predict where synergies and conflict may arise. Good read – very interesting take on assessments and Virtual Job Tryout. It’s important to measure not only the individual but also the context because if the candidate works with other people assessments ought to be able to predict where synergies and conflict may arise.

]]> Comment on Pre-employment Testing in the Experience Economy by Joe Murphy http://www.shakercg.com/blog/2010/09/pre-employment-testing-in-the-experience-economy-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1923 Joe Murphy Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:50:10 +0000 http://www.shakercg.com/blog/?p=309#comment-1923 @GerryCrispin - as always, you take an idea and stretch it a bit, see it from a new perspective. Three dimensions make sense, a clear value proposition is the true driver of immersion in the candidate experience. I do not believe candidates invest much time exploring jobs that are of little to no interest. However, the more compelling the value proposition, the more willing to accept the invitation to go deeper, invest the time to immerse oneself in the realistic job preview, complete a face valid pre-employment test. My more recent <a href="http://bit.ly/e05WEc" rel="nofollow">blog </a>on the game like nature of the candidate experience asks three questions to evaluate the experience. I can see the forth question is: How does your value proposition differentiate your job and company from the competition? @GerryCrispin – as always, you take an idea and stretch it a bit, see it from a new perspective. Three dimensions make sense, a clear value proposition is the true driver of immersion in the candidate experience. I do not believe candidates invest much time exploring jobs that are of little to no interest. However, the more compelling the value proposition, the more willing to accept the invitation to go deeper, invest the time to immerse oneself in the realistic job preview, complete a face valid pre-employment test.

My more recent blog on the game like nature of the candidate experience asks three questions to evaluate the experience. I can see the forth question is: How does your value proposition differentiate your job and company from the competition?

]]> Comment on Pre-employment Testing in the Experience Economy by Gerry Crispin http://www.shakercg.com/blog/2010/09/pre-employment-testing-in-the-experience-economy-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1921 Gerry Crispin Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:47:21 +0000 http://www.shakercg.com/blog/?p=309#comment-1921 I love the contributions of immersion and interface by the experience economy and your johari window application of them to the candidate experience. One thought: The dimensions seem to reflect the affect of the candidate but not necessarily the relevance of the content to either the decision process or their expectations. Is a third dimension of value to establish the context of the experience to the [candidate's] job interest? I love the contributions of immersion and interface by the experience economy and your johari window application of them to the candidate experience.

One thought:
The dimensions seem to reflect the affect of the candidate but not necessarily the relevance of the content to either the decision process or their expectations. Is a third dimension of value to establish the context of the experience to the [candidate's] job interest?

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