HUCAMA BLOG
Pre employment assessment, intelligence testing, 360 degree feedback, growth mindset...
When Performance Management Feels Like Surfing
For most people, Performance Management can be a very dry topic and even though it is a requirement for HR it’s generally not considered one of the most exciting things about work. Yet, when you talk to people about surfing, almost everyone gets excited and engaged....
Why September Is a Good Hiring Month
As the season’s changes, so does the recruitment landscape. Hiring season happens in waves, where autumn represents the third and final hiring spree of the year. In fact, September is one of the busiest hiring months of the year, and there is a good reason why. The...
What We Need to Prepare to Manage and Lead Generation Z in the Workplace
Loosely defined as those born after 1995, Generation Z has been shaped by social media, technology, the post 9-11 world, and a deep recession. This is very different from the Millennials, who grew up in relative peace, prosperity and the “Boom Times” of the 1990s....
A Proven Tool For Candidate Placement
As the Human Resources lead for your organization, you’re busy and resource constrained. From hiring the right people, to training and growing your current employees, to building up the robust HR practices that will give your organization a competitive advantage, you...
The Key To Predicting Future Performance
The use of personality assessments enables you to take control of performance management, optimize your organizational recruitment process, and implement dynamic systems for performance optimization. In the following blogpost we will demonstrate how Europe's leading...
Are You a Genius Or a Genius Maker?
Imagine a weekly staff meeting. The meeting follows a predictable format with each member giving their report, informing their colleagues of progress being made and issues within the function. It is pretty much a bland functional report-out session. The manager is at...
What Can Talent Management do to Empower Leadership?
Two of your roles as a member of the HR team are to identify greatness among your current employees and potential candidates and to optimize leadership development in your organization. As you probably already know, building leaders is not an easy task. There are,...
Meta Talent and Personality
We have previously written about Carol Dweck’s research on mindset and her distinction between a “fixed” and a “growth” mindset and its influence on our motivation and achievement. The findings indicate that people in fixed a mindset tend to become so concerned with...
3 Key Points About the Value of Leadership Training
The value of leadership is not something tangible. It's hard to calculate an ROI for a company spending time on leadership development. But it's important for all employees to have at least some leadership training. Let’s have a look why. Few people are...
Hiring and retaining talent is great; Building talent is greater
At HUCAMA we say: Building an organization that creates and uses meta-talent is even better! You hear it all the time: recruiting is difficult, it takes time, it is costly, but the right recruiting strategy is an important necessity in modern organizations. Companies...
Using cognitive ability test is about risk aversion
How are organizations to select the right people with the right appropriate professional and intellectual ability in an ever-tighter labor market, which is furthermore becoming increasingly global? We all know that hiring a less than adequate candidate is costly....
Building a growth mindset culture
Carol Dweck's comprehensive research in motivation and achievement has shown that mindset is critical to predicting future success. This is because our vision of intelligence and ability decide how we cope with failures, challenges, feedback and the success of...
Hire the right candidate from the start
Choosing the wrong candidate is expensive for the employee as well as the company. Using the right interview technique is one of the best ways to ensure a successful recruitment. While there are many different types of interviewing, there is concrete evidence to...
More than one personality assessment can be fruitful
Working in the world of Psychometrics sometimes makes me feel like a kid in a candy store – so much choice, so many colours. Over the years I could see how brilliant Psychometric assessments can be in adding value to selection and development processes, if used...
Why you need to get organized to motivate
At HUCAMA we believe that knowing the importance of personality will help you to improve business results. Think about it. We live in a changing world. How your job routine is structured today can be old-fashioned tomorrow. Technology evolves faster than most of us...
5 clichés about personality tests you’ll love to avoid
Personality tests are a very useful tool. They can tell you about a person’s inclinations, habits, the way they approach the world, what type of people they work best with, and jobs their skill sets naturally fit. Personality testing has become very popular in both...
A mindset culture is a feedback culture
In our first piece about meta-talent, we stated that traditional associations with talent are by-products of something else. Some of these associations include intelligence, development, and persistence. That 'something else' is what we call meta-talent. Carol Dweck,...
Do you know these 4 fascinating things about leadership?
Part of being an effective leader is being able to gauge your audience. That's an oversimplification; what I mean, is, that it's important to understand your team members and how to know how to motivate them. Irrespective of leadership styles, knowing how to speak to...