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Battling Society's Cancer: Unemployment
The official figures are staggering: 35% of the workforce - about 280,000 people - are unemployed and looking for a job. Each 1.43 employee support 1 unemployed person. In the USA the figure is 3.3 to 4 employees supporting all the...
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LOW UNEMPLOYMENT CALLS FOR FLEXIBILITY, NOT SUFFERING
Employers in many areas are finding applicant pools sparsely populated if not completely void of the most desirable candidates because of record low unemployment. Plans for growth should include flexibility, not suffering. Unfortunately, many corporations have simply lowered their expectations and hiring standards.
Companies caught in this predicament should consider the use of skill, attitude, and personality assessments to measure employee strengths and weaknesses. The information gained from assessment tools can be used to:
^ssign work responsibilities to match employee strengths so that more work can
be accomplished with fewer people.
^ssign people to jobs they like so that turnover, absenteeism, and tardiness are minimized.
?uild models identifying the personal traits necessary to succeed on specific jobs and hire with that model to prevent hiring mistakes.
Copyright 2001, Mason Duchatschek
About the Author
Mason Duchatschek is the president of AMO-Employer Services, Inc., in St. Louis, Missouri, and co-author of the book Sales Utopia: How to Get the Right People, Doing the Right Things, Enough Times. His phone number is 1-800-245-0445, and his company?s website is www.amo-es.com.
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