INCREASE EFFECTIVENESS OF YOUR RECRUITMENT WITH EXTENDED DISC ASSESSMENTS REPORTS

The use of personal assessment tools is now a necessity in the recruitment and management of people. It is critical that the method used in the process be validated, internationally understood and accepted.

Why are assessment tools a necessity? See if these situations sound familiar to you?

§ A manager comes to the HR department telling to fill a certain position and just giving the technical requirements.

§ Company keeps on advertising the same job, because of high rotation on that position without knowing what causes this situation.

§ Smaller business owner advertise for all positions in a similar manner, requesting only required technical skills or the same set of traits (e.g. able to work independently, strong drive for results)

§ The applications received are not meeting the desired requirements, as if the advertisements are not attracting the right candidates.

§ During interview the person seems to be the best candidate, but once employed turned out to behave quite different.

The end result is that candidates of questionable suitability apply for positions, which they may or may not really want, and companies spend time recruiting and interviewing people who may not possess the fundamental behavioral traits that suit the job description. How do you ensure that you’re hiring the right people to take on the critical roles in your organization?

Defining requirements is the initial step in recruiting the right people for the job. By measuring candidates against the defined requirements that are crucial to success in the role and in the business, you ensure you have an objective framework for selecting candidates and developing staff. The most successful organizations know that their most important resource is the people who make up their team and carry the responsibility for the growth of the company, so they use assessment tools in the employment process and further for the ongoing management of their people.

In this two-hour mini-seminar, we will present a two interactive and practical case studies and a model that can be easily applied immediately in your current recruitment process

This mini-seminar will take place on  1st October (Thursday) at 9 am in Extended DISC office (Lot 237, 2nd Floor, The Curve, Mutiara Damansara, 47800 Petaling Jaya, Selangor).

Please book a seat by sending an e-mail to career_advisor@resumeweassist.com ASAP.

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Extended DISC (http://www.extendeddisc.com) is the leader in understanding how people information can generate business value to client. We service each client with individuality and tailor our approach to their needs!

To determine if Extended DISC can help you and your organization, contact us today. Together we can find out if your organization needs the information Extended DISC provides.

THANK YOU!

1) Welcome to ResumeWeAssist.com

2) Why You are looking for a job? – Part 1

3) Why You are looking for a job? – Part 2

4) Resume 101 – Part 1

5) Resume 101 – Part 2

6) Is an interview a Crucial Conversation?

7) Interview is a Crucial Conversation.

Have you ever follow up after an interview?

9) Survey result: No one ever follow up after an interview!

10) Hooray!!! I’ve received a job offer. Should I accept it or reject it?

11) Weigh your job offer – Part 1

12) Weigh your job offer – Part 2

13) Weigh your job offer – Part 3

14) Self development in CMS

15) Where am I in my career?

16) Personality test: Job matching

17) Writing an effective resume – understand resume format

18) Win in an interview – Start with heart

19) When to follow up?

20) Understand your job offer

21) Are you satisfied with your career?

22) Personality test: Job matching using MBTI

23) Understand resume format – Chronological resume

24) Win in an interview – Learn to look? – Part 1

25) Win in an interview – Learn to look? – Part 2

26) How to follow up?

27) Before accepting the job offer: Assess your needs with the benefits given

28) Is my job secured?

29) Personality test : Career Key

30) Understand resume format – Functional resume

31) Success in modern day job interview

32) Win in an interview – “Make it Safe”

33) Follow up – After sending out your resume

34) Accepting job offer during economy meltdown? – Part 1

35) Accepting job offer during economy meltdown – Part 2?

36) 15 Personal Skills You Need on the Job

37) Glossophobia

May Allah bless us all…

My wife & I arrived at PISA about 1pm. From the parking lot, I could see several stretches of cars parking surrounding PISA. I started to have the impression that the response to this expo will be relatively good but not as good as the response during the PC fair . Those who have been to PC fair in PISA will know what I mean.

Anyway, we managed to find a suitable parking slot in the basement. While we were walking towards the entrance, I started to see a crowd of people filling up a form. From far I saw it was a registration form, hence my wife walked towards the counter, grabbed 2 forms and diligently filled them up. To get into the main arena where the expo was held, we had to queue up and submitted the registration forms to some officers at the entrance. The officer verified our forms and gave us a VISITOR sticker to be pasted on our hand.

We walked into the arena and the 1^st booth we saw was Dell. It was strategically located straight in-front of the entrance. The booth was simple but yet elegant. For me, I could say Dell’s both attracted the most visitors, may be they are giving out free attractive bag and it could also be the list of vacancies available by them. Dell has manufacturing, sales & customer service activities in Penang. However, most of the job vacancies advertised on that day were into sales & customer service field, none for manufacturing.

Right behind Dell was Motorola. In Penang, Motorola is focusing on their communication devices (except handphone) manufacturing activities especially on walkie talkie. Even in Penang, Motorola has a well established R&D team focusing on walkie talkie technology development. Hence, most of the job vacancy is more into engineering (electronic, mechanical etc). Surprisingly even though the world economy is in recession now, but Motorola is still intensively hiring engineers. Even though it is weird to do so now, but Motorola Penang is actually expanding. This is because Motorola manufacturing site worldwide is consolidating their manufacturing into Penang. That is why Motorola Penang needs extra engineers to support their consolidation initiative.

Another major multinational participated in this expo was Intel. Surprising Intel still has some vacancies in their manufacturing, business & technology activities. In Malaysia, Intel has 2 huge manufacturing sites which are in Penang & Kulim, Kedah. Overall, it seems they are hiring but more on a selective hiring for critical vacancies or expansion initiative.

Other than that, there were also some local players such as Bank Negara, Petronas and etc. Bank Negara opened a relative big booth compared to the rest of the local players. They were not only looking for candidates to join them but they were also providing financial advice and tools during the expo. Petronas booth was relatively small if compared to their reputation as Malaysia’s sole petroleum company. Anyway, they have some job vacancies in their off shore plant and also some office work.

There were also some local universities and colleges took part in this expo. Their focus were more on promoting their post graduate programs. For those who missed visiting this expo, there will be another expo entirely focusing on postgraduate program on the 16 & 17-Dec at Gurney Hotel, Penang (9am – 5pm). I’m sure you will find some suitable programs if you are interested to further your studies.

We spent about 2 hours at the expo. My personal opinion, I’m still sceptical if all this companies are actually doing intensive hiring. However, I’m still glad and surprise to see there are still many job vacancies available in Penang.

As been widely announced, world leaders and business gurus are forecasting that in 2009, the world will be in another recession cycle but will recover as soon we are in 2010.  Even though the world is in recession now, but I’m sure each of these participated companies have their own human resource strategy.

So is this expo a success? It all depends on individual success (getting the job) and the companies strategy success (get the best employee at the right time). Please share your personal experience in the comment below if you are a visitor or a participant during the expo.

If you think this article will be beneficial to your friends & family, feel free to share with them.

Thanks

Regards

Yusoff

For those who are in Penang, Malaysia this coming weekend (29 & 30-Nov’08), don’t miss this opportunity to visit the 5^th Penang Career & Postgraduate Expo in PISA. There will be many major multinationals & recruitment agencies participating to showcase the opportunities available for job seekers. On top of that, universities & private colleges will also take part to promote their postgraduate programs to anyone who are interested to further their studies to postgraduate level.

I’ll be there not as a participant for this round but more like an observer. I’m curious to know how is the job market will look like for FY09 especially in the northern region of Malaysia. I’ll share in this blog sometime next week on some highlights and my experience during the expo.

Latest participant listing during the expo:

Aeon Credit Service (M) Bhd ( Kuala Lumpur )

 Agensi Pekerjaan AllStaff Outsourcing Sdn Bhd

 Agensi Pekerjaan GMP (M) Sdn Bhd ( Kuala Lumpur )

 Agensi Pekerjaan JAC Sdn Bhd

 Agensi Pekerjaan Select Appointments (M) Sdn Bhd

 Agensi Perkerjaan Career Wise Sdn Bhd

 AIESEC in UUM

 AmAssurance Life

 Ann Joo Steel Berhad

 Asia e University

 Avago Technologies ( M ) Sdn Bhd

 Bank Negara Malaysia ( Kuala Lumpur )

 Befrienders Penang

 Carsem (M) Sdn Bhd ( Perak )

 CONTINENTAL

 Cosmopoint College of Technology

 Danai Spa

 Datacom South East Asia (M)Sdn Bhd ( Kuala Lumpur )

 Dell Asia Pacific Sdn

 DIGI

 Dongwha Fireboard Sdn Bhd

 Entegris ( Malaysia ) Sdn Bhd

 EPS CONSULTANTS SDN BHD

 Eu Yang Sang ( 1959 ) Sdn Bhd ( Kuala Lumpur )

 Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers

 Finisar Malaysia Sdn Bhd ( Perak )

 Firefly Airline

 F-Secure Corporation (M) Sdn Bhd ( Kuala Lumpur )

 Intel Technology Sdn Bhd

 Jen Infotech Sdn Bhd ( Kuala Lumpur )

 JOBS DB Malaysia Sdn Bhd ( Kuala Lumpur )

 Jobstreet.com Sdn Bhd

 Kareer.Com.My

 Kelly Services (M) Sdn Bhd

 Kontron Mfg Services (M) Sdn Bhd

 Malaysia University of Science And Technology ( Kuala Lumpur )

 Malaysia-Japenese Society

 Malaysian Automotive Lighting Sdn Bhd

 Management & Science University ( Kuala Lumpur )

 Marvell Semiconductor Sdn Bhd

 Maxcup Marketing Sdn Bhd

 MAXIS

 Mesiniaga Berhad

 Molex ( Malaysia ) Sdn Bhd

 Motorola Technology Sdn Bhd

 OSRAM Opto Semiconductors (M) Sdn Bhd

 Penang Hainan Association – Youth Division

 PETRONAS

 PPI Industries Sdn Bhd

 Renesas Semiconductor Design (Malaysia )Sdn Bhd

 Schawk Imaging Sdn Bhd

 SCM Professional Centre Sdn Bhd

 SG Marketing Management Sdn Bhd

 Silterra Malaysia Sdn Bhd ( Kedah )

 Silverstone Berhad ( Perak )

 Southern Steel Berhad

 Spansion ( Penang ) Sdn Bhd

 Stable Vision Corporation Sdn Bhd

 Star-Jobs.com

 STEC Technologies Sdn Bhd

 Super Dinning Sdn Bhd ( Kuala Lumpur )

 Thomson Media Solutions Malaysia Sdn Bhd ( Kuala Lumpur )

 Toastmasters International, District 51

 Unisem ( M ) Berhad ( Perak )

 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ( Kuala Lumpur )

 Universiti Malaysia Perlis ( Perlis )

 Universiti Teknologi Petronas ( Perak )

 Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia ( Johor )

 Universiti Utara Malaysia ( Kedah )

 Victoria House Sdn Bhd ( Kuala Lumpur )

 Walton International Group ( Kuala Lumpur )

 WD Media ( Malaysia ) Sdn

 Wealth Mastery Academy Sdn Bhd

 GeneCode International Sdn Bhd

 ZF Steerings (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd

Please bring along hard copies of your resumes & certificates as well as CD-ROM containing your biodata.

Please indicate your name & contact number on the CD-ROM.

Let us know your thoughts on our new look. Do you like it?

Please drop your comments below.

Special gifts from ResumeWeAssist.com will be given for each comments.

 Regards

Yusoff

On behalf of ResumeWeAssist.com, we would like to wish all our Muslim clients & friends, Selamat Hari Raya, Maaf Zahir Batin. We hope this Ramadhan will bring Allah’s blessing to all of us.

We will be away from 30-Sept’08 to 4-Oct’08. Our apologies for any late response to your e-mails or comments.

Thank you.

Drive safely for those you will balik kampung.

Till then,

Take care.

Regards

Yusoff

Enjoy all these 21 articles and keep your comments coming in..

1) Welcome to ResumeWeAssist.com

2) Why You are looking for a job? – Part 1

3) Why You are looking for a job? – Part 2

4) Resume 101 – Part 1

5) Resume 101 – Part 2

6) Is an interview a Crucial Conversation?

7) Interview is a Crucial Conversation.

8) Have you ever follow up after an interview?

9) Survey result: No one ever follow up after an interview!

10) Hooray!!! I’ve received a job offer. Should I accept it or reject it?

11) Weigh your job offer – Part 1

12) Weigh your job offer – Part 2

13) Weigh your job offer – Part 3

14) Self development in CMS

15) Where am I in my career?

16) Personality test: Job matching

17) Writing an effective resume – understand resume format

18) Win in an interview – Start with heart

19) When to follow up?

20) Understand your job offer

21) Are you satisfied with your career?

Regards

Yusoff

Thanks to Puan Alhan, Encik Amir & Encik Asri for inviting me to share about CMS to your students.

In my article today, I would like to share some of the photos and testimonial from the students.

Thanks

Testimonial

“The presenter gave the best options and advice. He seems well prepared on this topic. Well done!”

“Thanks a lot. Your talk really helps”

“Thank you for the information given during the talk. I hope, in the future, I will be able to attend your other talks to gain more knowledge about CMS”