5 Tips For Hiring Your Next Boss!

Have you ever felt like your boss was using a hammer instead of a drill to drive a bolt into a piece of wood? This feeling is horrible. So the next time you look for a job consider Ron Carucci's, Five Pointers For Hiring Your Next Boss. The Five tips that Carucci gives are as follows:

1. Know yourself and what you want in a boss. You need to be very clear with want you want and expect from your leader and express that to them in your interview before you accept the job. Remember that there is nothing wrong with turning down a job.
2. Know how this opportunity advances who you want to become. Give them and yourself the opportunity to see if the "real" you fits with the company's culture because their culture and environment will shape your character, values and worldview. Life is to short to be miserable, so make sure this advancement moves you to be the person you want to become.
3. Rehearse the relationship. Ask them about specifics on the job so that they "talk shop" with you and start to reveal how the relationship will be when you come on board.
4. Ask real questions. "So what can I expect out of our relationship?" or "Can I talk to your team members to understand how your relationship is with them?" A true leader will respect you for asking proof of their leadership abilities.
5. Be an anthropologist. Observe and listen for any patterns or anything that intrigues you about the environment, interactions between people, or the teams' vibe. Show them you care about them, their company, and your future by asking questions about your observations of their team.

Life is hard enough without your career, here at Resources Unlimited, we understand that and we strive to make both the bosses and the employees life better by giving them tools to achieve better relationships and understanding of themselves.

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3 Tips to Hiring Millennials the Right Way

There are several ways to hire millennials, but fitting them into your company's culture is whole another step. We help companies throughout the world hire the right people and on board them into the companies culture.

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7 Tips to Managing Millennials in Manufacturing

Pat Dean is the Director of Recruiting at Advanced Technology Services and he gives 7 tips on how to manage Millennials in manufacturing. According to the his article, the 7 Best Ways To manage Millennials In Manufacturing are as follow:

1. Let Millennials collaborate
2. Let them work while on the go 
3. Offer training and development opportunities
4. Set clear career paths
5. Be open to integrating new technology
6. Create a mentoring program
7. Give Millennials a purpose

The most important thing to do as a manager of a Millennial is to get to know them. They are well studied and eager to learn when the manager or mentor takes an interest in them. Use Pat Dean's 7 tips to help you adapt your managing style to fit the Millennial's work style.

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New Tutorial: Use the DiSC Role Behavior Analysis to Identify Job Fit

You can now view a movie tutorial about the DiSC Role Behavior Analysis on our website. Just click "DiSC Role Behavior Analysis Tutorial" at the top of the page.

By viewing the tutorial, you will learn:

• What is the DiSC Role Behavior Analysis Profile
• When to use the DiSC Role Behavior Analysis
• The What of the Job
• The How of the Job
• Explanation of the Button, Banner and Brochure ideal
• Conflicting Role Expectations
• How to use the DiSC Role Behavior Analysis
• Your Position and Roles Within
• Examples of Roles in a Position
• What you should do before responding
• After responding - what is learned
• Matching Style and Role Expectation
• Conflicting expectations
• Consensus Role Behavior Analysis Process

The DiSC Role Behavior Analysis was designed to identify role fit, identify training and development needs, and create a plan for stretching and redirecting for a better fit. This DiSC-based assessment is available in both online and paper formats. To compare results to the DiSC General Characteristics profile, the online format is required.

Questions? Call our DiSC Experts at 800.278.1292.

Using the DiSC Profile for Hiring

An article by Management-Issues says that assessments are a vital part of the hiring process:

The development of talent pools, active communication with prospects and personality assessments were also vital in this tough, competitive market.

Employers who did not follow this advice would pay a high price, the compant warned, with the cost of turnover at 1.5 times that of salary and some companies reporting a six-fold expenditure above salary when hidden costs such as "chain reaction" turnover and lost productivity are factored in."

Full article: http://www.management-issues.com/2006/9/28/research/younger-workers-benefit-from-departure-of-baby-boomers.asp

The DiSC Profile is commonly used by our clients for hiring purposes. The online DiSC assessment has made this even easier because HR professionals can send the DiSC assessment to a candidate's email address. The candidate typically fills out the DiSC profile before or after the interview. Then, the HR professional can view the candidate's behavioral style and make comparisons to the position.

Recommended DiSC Tools to Use:

• DiSC General Characteristics: is an in-depth personal behavior assessment. By administering the General Characteristics Report to potential employees, you will obtain a broad range of the individual’s behavioral characteristics, including behavioral strengths and weaknesses, motivating and demotivating factors, and management and selling styles.
• DiSC Role Behavior Analysis: allows you to profile the job or role, and tells you how the role needs to be performed regardless of who is performing the role. Depending on your priorities, you can profile a part of a job, such as coach, as part of a broader role of manager, or complete the assessment for the role of manager.
• DiSC Comparison Reports: Assesses how well the participant’s behaviors match the requirements of the role.

For more information on how to use these 3 assessments, visit our website at: http://www.resourcesunlimited.com/shop/DiSC_for_Hiring_Reports.asp

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DiSC Profile Patterns - Occupational Analysis

The DiSC Profile is more and more frequently being used as a pre-hiring tool. We frequently receive questions from clients asking us which DiSC patterns are typical for certain occupations. To answer this, we have provided some information below, provided by Inscape Publishing, creator of the DiSC Profile (2002).

Customer Service:

Perfectionist Pattern (25%)
Secondaries: Specialist (13%) and Counselor (11%)

Executive:

Top 3 Patterns: Result-Oriented (17%) , Inspirational (15%) , Creative (14%)

Sales:

Inspirational (17%), Promoter (16%), Result-Oriented (12%)

Mechanical/Technical:

Perfectionist Pattern (29%)
Secondaries: Specialist (10%), Creative (9%)

Secretarial/Clerical:

Perfectionist Pattern (33%)
Secondaries: Specialist (10%), Counselor (9%)

To get the greatest understanding of how a candidate's DiSC profile compares to your particular job, we highly recommend completing a DiSC Role Behavior Analysis. All jobs are different depending on the clientele, industry, work environment, etc.

For more information, please feel free to call us at 800.278.1292 or visit our website at www.ResourcesUnlimited.com.

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