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Want Better Employees? Get Somebody Else To Rate Their Personalities, Suggests New Study.

By Guest PostNovember 16, 2012Economyassessment, business, co worker, current employees, evaluation tool, job, maastricht university, michael scott, performance, personality test, phenomenon, potential, predictive, self rated, the office, toronto, university, ute huelsheger

TORONTO, ON – Businesses will get more accurate assessments of potential and current employees if they do away with self-rated personality tests and ask those being assessed to find someone else to rate them, suggest results from a new study.

Previous job performance studies have shown that outsiders are best at rating an individual’s personality in terms of how they work on the job. But observers in these studies have always been co-workers. (more…)

A Career of Thriving on ‘Impossible Projects’ – Including Kinect for Xbox 360

By Guest PostJune 12, 2012Technologycareer, innovations at microsoft, job, kinect, kinect effect, kinect project, microsoft technology, project natal

Alex Kipman, leader behind Kinect, on making technology ‘disappear.’

REDMOND, Wash. – June 12, 2012 – In June 2010, Alex Kipman sat in Los Angeles’ Galen Center as Cirque de Soleil performers helped introduce the world to Kinect. Acrobats, musicians and 10-foot tall puppets filled the sports arena, where 3,000 people watched a boy onstage discover Microsoft’s new controller-free gaming system. (more…)

Recovery Continues for U.S. Economy, Adding 5 Million Jobs

By Guest PostMarch 23, 2012Economyamerica, bernie degroat, daniil manaenkov, Economy, gross domestic product, Japan, joan crary, job, matthew hall, unemployment, university of michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— America’s economy will continue its recovery this year and next as it adds nearly 5 million jobs and unemployment falls below 8 percent, say University of Michigan economists.

“The performance of the U.S. economy during much of 2011 did nothing to alter the perception that we were mired in a sluggish recovery,” said U-M economist Joan Crary. (more…)

Faced With Job Loss? Perception is Everything

By Guest PostMarch 9, 2012Economyanxiety, bernie degroat, cognitively activate, employment prospects, Facebook, general social survey, information, job, job loss, job search, job seeker, labor market, leigh thompson, linkedIn, ned smith, perception, poor, resources, social network, socioeconomic status, tanya menon, university of michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— When faced with job loss, people who consider themselves poor may limit employment prospects by believing they have a smaller social network than they actually do, says a University of Michigan business professor.

“Social networks help explain people’s outcomes in the labor market by determining how people seek help,” said Ned Smith, assistant professor of strategy at the Michigan Ross School of Business. “Network contacts offer two primary resources for job search—information, which provides job seekers with knowledge about where to find employment, and influence, whereby network contacts affect people’s success in actually securing employment by swaying the hiring process.” (more…)

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Want Better Employees? Get Somebody Else To Rate Their Personalities, Suggests New Study.

A Career of Thriving on ‘Impossible Projects’ – Including Kinect for Xbox 360

Recovery Continues for U.S. Economy, Adding 5 Million Jobs

Faced With Job Loss? Perception is Everything