Everyone I talk to is looking for strategies to maximize business in tough times. Yesterday, we talked with a colleague who works for a company headquartered in Japan. She told us that one of their senior officers came to visit the US division and told everyone to look at the lull in the business as an opportunity to redefine their business strategies and to take time to improve how they perform their work. Through thoughtful review of current approaches (what works well and what needs to be improved) and looking for opportunities that come during difficult times, adversity provides the time to devise the most creative strategies. What a positive perspective! Read more…
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International Hiring Processes
December 15th, 2008 by The ECI Team
I just returned from a trip to Europe where during our mealtimes we ate with people from a variety of countries. Of course, as always occurs, people ask “what do you do?”. When I told them that our business was providing psychological testing to help companies hire, manage and develop high performers , the discussion turned to how the selection process differs from one country to the next.
Our French Canadians were quick to point out that the process has to be completed in French and that documentation needed to be placed in the personnel files in French. Apparently psychological assessment has been used for quite some time in Canada and is not viewed as particularly earth shattering. Both of the individuals were government employees who resided in Quebec. Read more…
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