Posts By: Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - Social Media on September 25th, 2014
I recently wrote a blog segment about how to leverage social media features in candidate talent communities, Re-Thinking the Candidate Talent Community Concept. In this segment, I would …
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By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - Talent Management on September 9th, 2014
Organizations will likely ask “How can I quickly grow a candidate talent community from scratch?” A candidate talent community can be quickly established using a variety of sources. These sources include:
Top Candidates
The main way people …
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By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - Talent Management on July 31st, 2014
The Candidate Talent Community Concept
Recruiters have long recognized that past candidates are a potential talent source for future job openings. The candidate community concept consists of maintaining information and contact details of past candidates and …
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By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - Interviewing on May 6th, 2014
In the seminal book on Behavior Description Interviewing, our Chairman Dr. Lowell Hellervik and his co-authors laid out a taxonomy of interview questions. In this taxonomy, each question type …
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By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - Other Topics on April 15th, 2014
Previous Categories of Social Media Users
There have been multiple attempts in recent months to classify social media users into various types or categories. Most of these efforts use frequency and type of participation as the …
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By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - Talent Management on March 19th, 2014
Many organizations make it a policy not to share assessment results with candidates. This is primarily to avoid stimulating challenges from disgruntled candidates concerning assessment procedures. While there is certainly some logic in this approach, …
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By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - Talent Management on March 10th, 2014
I recently read an article by Kevin Wheeler on the potential value of MOOCs for recruiting. MOOCs (Massive, Open Online Courses) were …
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By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - General HR Topics on February 20th, 2014
Work experience has long been an area of interest for HR professionals in reviewing candidates for open positions but surprisingly little is known about its exact role in predicting job performance. Certainly, internal and external …
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By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - Talent Management on February 4th, 2014
LinkedIn dominates social media sites as a community source for recruiters to mine for potential candidates for openings. Facebook and Twitter are next but are significantly further behind. The reason …
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By Patrick Hauenstein, Ph.D.
Posted in - General HR Topics on January 23rd, 2014
Human beings are social in their very nature. We spend a good amount of our time in social environments. Our work environment is certainly an important social environment for career development. Other important social learning …
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