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AJ Cheponis
Mar 3, 20224 min read
How To Hire An Accounts Receivable Specialist
Identifying a good accounts receivable specialist isn’t always easy. Sure, there are qualifications, but how can you be sure?
AJ Cheponis
Feb 24, 20225 min read
8 Tips for Hiring a Great Candidate
You can’t select a great candidate if you don’t know what you’re looking for, which is why you need a candidate profile.
AJ Cheponis
Feb 11, 20223 min read
Is Education A Predictor Of Job Performance?
How important is education to an employer? That is, does one’s education predict job performance?
AJ Cheponis
Feb 1, 20226 min read
Reliability and Validity of the PI Behavioral Assessment
With personality assessments becoming commonplace in today's world, I'm frequently asked what the difference is with the tools we use.
AJ Cheponis
Jan 13, 20222 min read
What is the No. 1 source of conflict for CEOs?
What you might not realize is that the bulk of this tension stems not from business decisions or financial ones, but people ones.
AJ Cheponis
Jan 6, 20226 min read
Employee Expectations Are Shifting. Can You Meet Them?
Employees today aren’t just looking for a fatter paycheck. They want a better work-life balance.
AJ Cheponis
Dec 16, 20216 min read
A great process for hiring salespeople
Once you learn and adopt this seven-step hiring process, you will see an improvement in your ability to identify and attract sales talent.
AJ Cheponis
Dec 8, 20214 min read
How to build trust in a team (even virtually).
When assessing team performance, it’s easy to fixate on results. While metrics are important, they don’t account for all drivers of success.
AJ Cheponis
Jul 25, 20215 min read
How to build a strong and successful team
Are you looking to build a team of top performers with diverse skill sets? One that runs smoothly—and even remotely—on its own without...
AJ Cheponis
Nov 24, 20204 min read
Do you know why good employees leave?
Fortunately, cost per hire expenses are avoidable—managers can be taught to lead in a way that promotes employee engagement and retention.
AJ Cheponis
Nov 17, 20202 min read
The under-management epidemic
We hear relatively little about under-management and yet it plays a role in organizations’ not achieving the results they need.
AJ Cheponis
Nov 5, 20203 min read
Identify your hiring priorities
Are you overwhelmed with the number of job openings in your organization? Do you feel like you need to fill all the jobs, right now? If...
AJ Cheponis
Nov 3, 20203 min read
Meyers Briggs vs. Predictive Index
Meyers Briggs vs. Predictive Index
AJ Cheponis
Oct 29, 20204 min read
How to recruit diverse engineering talent
While some companies succeed, your team tells you that there are no diverse candidates out there. What can you do?
AJ Cheponis
Oct 27, 20203 min read
How to build high-performing teams
When team members are diverse and understand each other's strengths, styles, and behaviors -- they can't be stopped.​
AJ Cheponis
Oct 22, 20203 min read
How one trucking industry CEO is solving his turnover problem
Job fit can tell employers a lot about whether or not an employee will thrive in their role and be engaged while performing it.
AJ Cheponis
Oct 20, 20206 min read
Building and maintaining culture with remote teams
Don’t be fooled, company culture can be tough to define with a remote workforce. It takes a concerted effort.
AJ Cheponis
Oct 15, 202010 min read
15 factors that create a toxic workplace
At the end of the day, we each play a role in contributing to or taking away from a healthy work environment.
AJ Cheponis
Oct 13, 20203 min read
Can you be too smart for a job?
There is not a job in the world where being smart will be a hindrance.
AJ Cheponis
Oct 8, 20204 min read
4 common problems in the manufacturing industry
Four possible solutions to how the manufacturing industry can tackle the growing skills gap.
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