KeenAlignment Blog | Employee Selection

5 Myths of Workforce Optimization [INFOGRAPHIC]

by Margaret Graziano | Apr 25, 2019 | Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Employee Selection, Human Resources, Talent Management, Organizational Development

Aligned and optimized employees are engaged employees.

Role Alignment is Key to Employee Engagement

by Margaret Graziano | Mar 08, 2019 | Employee Empowerment, Employee Engagement, Employee Selection, Talent Management

Using & Validating Assessments

by Margaret Graziano | Nov 10, 2017 | Assessment, Core Competencies, Employee Selection, Innovate Talent Utilization, Workforce Optimization, Skills, Talent Capacity

Employee selection (and the use of assessments) is one of the fastest-growing sectors in human resources. Assessment tools of various sorts are used to evaluate everything from candidate motivations, values and behaviors to communication style,...

Be A Change Agent: Disrupt Traditional HR Approaches

Today’s workforce is unfortunately more disengaged than ever. Perhaps it is because of the generational shift from boomers to millennials, or maybe because people are generally disenchanted with our changing society — whether it’s the effect of politics,...

5 Myths of Employee Retention

by Margaret Graziano | Feb 14, 2016 | Employee Empowerment, Employee Engagement, Employee Selection, performance management

There are five prevalent myths disrupting your employee retention.

Employee Engagement, Empowerment, and Optimization

by Margaret Graziano | Feb 08, 2016 | Employee Empowerment, Hire better, Employee Selection, Talent Management

As the steward of your organization’s people practices, you know people truly are your only competitive advantage.

Hiring: Sins of Omission - Part 2

by Margaret Graziano | Dec 11, 2015 | Employee Selection, Hiring Process, Recruiting, Unwanted turnover

When candidates are faced with such strict hiring guidelines, often out of insecurity and desperation they take some bad advice that typically sounds something like, “It’s only a white lie, saying you have done that will only get you a better offer, and...

Hiring: Sins of Omission - Part 1

by Margaret Graziano | Dec 10, 2015 | conscious hiring, Employee Selection, Hiring Process, Recruiting

In today’s volatile world, paying the price to live and work in the land of the free and the home of the brave means full disclosure. Full disclosure you ask? In the hiring process it means for a candidate to let it all hang out, tell the truth, not lie...

Margaret Graziano Receives Industry Innovator Award

Inventor of Conscious Hiring Margo Graziano recognized for her contribution to creating powerful corporate culture by revolutionizing the hiring experience for candidates, hiring managers and companies. This years National Women's Entrepreneur Award for...

Conscious Hiring™ Training

Let’s face it. Your internal talent is probably your ONLY competitive advantage. For your company to grow and be an industry leader, it’s critical that you hire difference makers who have the capacity and ability to achieve your company’s goals and...

Why Use an Assessment Tool?

by Margaret Graziano | Feb 17, 2013 | Behavioral Interviews, Employee Selection, Employment Selection, People ROI, Personality Assessments, Assessments, Personality Assessment

600,000 to 9000 career vacancies are attributable to a mismatch between the skills employers seek and those available in the market. With 4.6 unemployed people for every job opening in the U.S. and an average of 3.5 million critical skills employees...

Recruitment Consulting

You want to make the most of your human capital investment. The right people doing what they do best are the driving force for any successful business. Keeping your workforce happy and on the job is a winning proposition for you and for your employees....

Cutting Edge Talent Analyst Position Now Open! San Jose

by Margaret Graziano | Aug 08, 2011 | Conscious Hiring, Employee Performance Reviews, employee processes, Employee Retention, Employee Selection, Employment Selection, Keenhire, silicon valley jobs, Talent Selection, Recruiting Training, Recruitment Strategy, Recruitment Training, San Jose jobs, Talent Analyst, Talent Management, Recruitment Programming

You are a full life cycle recruiter who loves what you do! You experience yourself as a person who operates with a high level of integrity, and you want to work in an environment that rewards your high quality standards and precise candidate...

Are Mo, Larry And Curly Doing Your Hiring?

by Margaret Graziano | May 13, 2010 | Behavioral Interviews, Engineering Recruitment consulting, Conscious Hiring, Executive Recruitment, Corporate Recruiting Consultant, Employee Retention, Employee Selection, Employment Selection, Hiring Process, Management Recruiting Consulting, Technical Recruiting Consulting, Psychometric Assessment tools, Recruitment Training, Return on Hiring Investment

I'm serious.

Employee Development Power Versus Force

by Margaret Graziano | Oct 04, 2007 | Employee Selection, Playing to Strengths, retention, Organizational Development

As a manager, have you ever had the experience of trying to ‘make’ an employee change, forcing an outcome from an employee to improve their performance or, even worse, have you ever attempted to have them work differently by encouraging them to alter...