Beta Companies Wanted
(Read: free RoundPegg use for your team)
RoundPegg is already providing value to over 30 companies. In fact, we have helped companies make a number of successful hires already, and there are more in the hopper all the time.
We are looking to add more to the list. If you are hiring in the next 6-months, and want to ensure that you are bringing people into your company who fit your company like a glove, then drop us a line.
What you get:
- free use of our software through the end of 2010
- unlimited support and our complete attention on your input and feedback
- an hour a month with Dr. Natalie Baumgartner, our Chief Psychologist
What we need:
- active use of the software in your hiring initiatives
- timely, candid feedback
- a quote and a case study once we make you wildly successful
So, let’s talk.
Please email beta@roundpegg.com with a little info about your team, your hiring plans and the issues you’re facing with which we can help.
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Fair warning: space in the Beta program is extremely limited.
RoundPegg has created the third webinar in a series on organizational fit. In this edition Dr. Natalie runs through the benefits of aligning a company culture as well as providing some solid how-tos in order to identify and align your own culture. While it’s not easy, it’s worth the energy expenditure.
Please enjoy and, as always, contact us at info@roundpegg.com if you’d like to learn more.
Aligning teams and getting everyone engaged and pulling in the same direction is key to your business’ success. Engaged employees are 50% more productive than under or dis-engaged employees according to Gallup.
To pick up a few action items on how to re-engage your team, follow along with Natalie Baumgartner, RoundPegg’s Chief Psychologist as she outlines the most important things you can do.
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An amazing article in the Wall Street Journal (subscription req.) today profiled a Frenchman who’d managed to con his way into a tryout for an elite European ‘football’ club.
The brief summary is that he doctored his resume to show the he’d…”been climbing the ranks of European soccer, signing with a top-flight Paris club and training with a team in Argentina. He had an agent and a Web site that showed him scoring a goal for the English club Swindon Town. He’d even been chosen as an ambassador for Lance Armstrong’s charity.”
The problem was that none of it was true.
His reaction? “If I lied a little bit on my CV, I am sorry…I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their résumé they can speak fluent English.”
It’s amazing that we’re surprised when this happens. We put a lot of stock into the resume and the supposed skills and accomplishments one brings.
The stats say that almost half the resumes floating around out there contain false information (actually 42.7% via ResumeDoctor, March 2006).
So why do we keep putting so much faith in resumes?
Because it’s easy.
Resumes are shortcuts to get us what we’re looking for. It’s safe to hire the person with fantastic accomplishments. It’s safe to find the person who talks a great game and has the self-proclaimed history to back it up. Pedigrees, experiences and stated feats are cues to us for an individual’s ability to perform in our work environments.
Granted, the resume is likely still the best thing we have going for us. But it’s outdated.
Like stocks, past performance is no indicator of future performance. Especially if that past performance is falsified.
The reason the past doesn’t work is because new variables are added to the mix. Your business is a new environment. There are new politics at play. The dynamics between teams is different. And the way things get done is vastly different.
So what to do?
Look for themes in the resume instead.
Does the individual create new products or modify existing ones? Are they focused on working with teams or working in a silo? Are the accomplishments they focus on team accomplishments or individual? Answers either way are fine, it’s all a matter of what your own culture is. What’s makes your successful people tick? What does the role require?
Yesterday, RoundPegg hosted a 15-minute webinar on improving your hiring process in order to increase your odds of making a great hire.
RoundPegg’s Chief Psychologist, Dr. Natalie Baumgartner runs through the hiring landscape, the pitfalls most fall into, how to improve the process and finally, how RoundPegg can help.
Please check it out. And if you’d like to learn more or have specific problems you’re struggling with please email us at: Natalie.Baumgartner@roundpegg.com.
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