Why everyone hates performance reviews

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Why everyone hates performance reviews

Performance review. Two words in office life that are often guaranteed to make employees and managers alike roll their eyes in and sigh loudly.

Everyone hates performance review season, and I mean everyone.

As a formal process of evaluating an employee’s value to a business, the performance review (PR) has been around for a few decades now and yet with each passing year I read exactly the same articles and books lamenting its shortcomings.

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How to hire the best candidate, not the best interviewee

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How to hire the best candidate, not the best interviewee

The job interview. Often the final part of the recruitment process, it’s a phase of selection that is much maligned by both prospective employers and the prospective employees sitting on the other side of the desk.

But why is it that job interviews are often so disliked by everyone who takes part in them?

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Avoid these common hiring mistakes

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Avoid these common hiring mistakes

Recruitment is a specialist skill. Done well, it means you’ll get the best talent available into your business, increasing your chances of adding to your bottom line.

Done badly, it can cost you money in trying to unpick the mistakes. In fact, conservative estimates suggest a bad hire can cost a business as much as 30% of that person’s annual salary.

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