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When to Assess Values in the Recruitment Process

One question we are asked regularly by people considering values based recruitment for the first time is when to use the Profiles4Care profiling tool
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Benchmarking ‘values’ for recruitment

If you are a user of the Profiles4Care values-based recruitment tool then you may have noticed an icon like this, which appears next to the names of c
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The Carers of the Future

An interesting statistic which bodes well for the care industry came up recently when we asked the student and trainee applicants for this year WorldS
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Values based recruitment – fad or crucial?

Values based recruitment – is it just a fad or crucial for improving the care sector as so many experts are saying? Obviously we are not in any
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Great leaders are born that way

After reading the recent Guardian article on ‘Where are social care’s future leaders?’ we thought it worth adding in a point about the importanc
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Hired Any Short Tall People Lately?

Identifying Your Ideal Employee If you were to create the specification for an ideal employee. What would this person look like; what is it that would
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Personality Profiling – What’s in it for You the Candidate?

There should be no fear in completing a personality questionnaire, however faced with any sort of questionnaire some people do hesitate. This can be f
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You May Hire On Skill But You Will Fire On Attitude

Here is an exercise you could consider doing at workshops. Think of any job role you like. Now make a list of words you would use to describe someone
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