PERFORMANCE-BASED SELECTION: THE RECRUITING REVOLUTION HITS THE UK MARCH 15TH

February 18, 2005, Los Angeles, CA – Ferguson McKenzie, a leading Scottish HR Consultancy, has partnered with The Adler Group, the US leader in developing Hiring 2.0 - The systematic process for hiring top talent, to bring Lou Adler to London to present his revolutionary new workshop – The Essentials of Hiring 2.0 - Performance-Based Recruitment and Selection on March 15, 2005.

During this program participants will learn what recruiters need to do to become partners with their hiring manager clients. Used properly these performance-based recruiting and selection techniques will increase the quality of candidates being seen, improve the accuracy of each hiring decision, and eliminate common hiring mistakes.

Performance-based selection is an advanced form of behavioural interviewing. It’s far easier to learn and use, and it allows interviewers of all levels to more accurately assess the candidate’s answers. Using just a few core questions interviewers can quickly determine the universal core traits of success – competency, motivation, and team skills.

According to Lou Adler, CEO and Founder of The Adler Group, “recruiting and selection can become a systematic business process. This requires technology used properly, well-designed hiring processes, and trained recruiters and interviewers.” Adler’s research indicates that in most companies these activities tend to be too independent with few formal guidelines.  

This innovative recruitment methodology has already had a powerful impact in the US. Over 40,000 hiring managers and recruiters are now using these techniques. The results are clear – fewer hiring mistakes, more accurate assessments, a continuing flow of higher quality candidates, and recruiters who are considered true experts in the recruitment and selection process.

Shona McKenzie of Ferguson McKenzie says, “Traditional recruitment methodologies such as competency based selection have been around for a long time, they provide a decent framework but they have some obvious limitations. They tend to assess skills and behaviours in isolation rather than look at actual performance. I think we all know that it’s not just what skills you’ve got that counts - it’s what you do with them once you’re in the job. Performance Based Selection addresses this shortcoming by focusing on actual job performance.”
Details about the workshop and Performance-Based Recruitment & Selection may be found at www.adlerconcepts.com or www.fergusonmckenzie.com
About Ferguson McKenzie: Ferguson McKenzie Ltd is a specialist HR Recruitment, Consultancy and Career Management company with offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh. www.fergusonmckenzie.com
About The Adler Group: The Adler Group is a California based training and consulting firm that develops leading edge recruiting strategies. Lou Adler is founder of Hiring 2.0, The Systematic Process for Hiring Top Talent, Zero Based Hiring, CJA Executive search and author of “Hire with You Head”. www.adlerconcepts.com