Archive for December, 2020
Posted by Jim Nelson on December 29, 2020
My Alma Mater was in the news this week, and it was not for beating Navy. West Point caught 72 cadets cheating on a remote calculus test. I am well aware that gaps in integrity are worldwide, but when it happens at West Point, it is the top news item. It should be. In the […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on December 23, 2020
In December of 2010, we started this blog. I have now been blogging for 10 years. I started tweeting at the same time and have never done much with that, but I learned to love blogging and so became a faithful blogger and have up nearly 800 blogs! Really 10 Years of China Recruiting Blog. […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on December 22, 2020
Most recruiting in China and in the world is done with one eye open and one eye closed. Most companies also would say they do real data recruiting. However, they are then doing real data recruiting with that one eye. What about the other eye? What I mean by one eye closed is that experienced […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on December 15, 2020
A company I knew installed a fingerprinting check in device as knew many people were taking time off without permission. After they installed, they felt that problem was fixed. Then one day 2 years later someone signed in twice in a 15 minute space. Specifically, a manager signed in at work. A few minutes later […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on December 8, 2020
High pressure interviews should be reckoned as history. Unfortunately some managers think they can squeeze the truth out of a candidate like toothpaste. They use what we call the machine gun method. By giving the candidate extreme pressure and no time to think, they believe they can get to the truth. SHI Group, on the […]
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Posted by Jim Nelson on December 1, 2020
Let’s Think Transparency Transparency in recruiting is a word that sometimes gets thrown around. What is Transparency? Dr John Townsend tweeted (@drjohntownsend) an eye catching definition, and let me paste it below: Transparency is a combination of three aspects: openness, messaging and ownership. When these are in place, health enters the system and good things happen. […]
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