Friends of ours at Lighthouse Consulting have published their new book.   The book is entitled,  Cracking the Personality Code.   Lighthouse Consulting is one of the leading personality assessment groups for preemployment screening.  Aside from psychological test, Lighthouse offers aptitude testing that will assess your employee’s potential.  Well worth the effort. Here is what they write [...]

There are employers who will rely solely on a Criminal Database Search to check out their employment candidates.  While these criminal database searches have their advantages, they cover a lot of territory and can return quickly, they also have their pitfalls.   Criminal database searches, for the most part,  are accurate.  But there are times when [...]

Years ago, my grandfather, who did pretty well in the Great Depression, advised me that in tough times you need to find either one of two types of customers.   You find the guy with the million dollars or a million guys with the dollar.   What did he mean by this?  Quite simply, you find either [...]

Some companies will hold their own during the recession.   Some will withstand the downturn and possibly emerge even stronger for the experience.   Some will even prosper.   Case in point is French-owned advertising giant, Publicis Groupe.   According to an article in Advertising Age, Publicis CEO, Maurice Levy,  retains an upbeat attitude about the current economic conditions.   [...]