Greetings from Gardner Resources,

As a hiring manager, your decision making skills are continuously challenged. You are responsible for finding the best candidates for critical jobs.

To ensure you make the right decision, you are compelled to be as thorough as possible, gathering and analyzing large stores of data. But when time is limited, how can you be confident you have enough information to determine who will really succeed? The answer is simple: Make sure you focus on the right information.

In this issue of Gardner's IT Staffer, you'll find resources that will help you save time in identifying the right candidates for your organization.

Article - Thin Slicing Your Way to Better Hiring Decisions

Candidates write resumes to grab your attention. They know the hot words you want. They know the technical skills and business experience you desire. It comes not as a surprise to you that you see variations of the same resume.

What does this mean? Well, fortunately, it means that all candidates are qualified to do the job from a technical perspective; all you need to do now is find a candidate with the right personality and work ethic, and cover all your bases to make sure you have all the needed information. Right?

Well, they might seem qualified, but is the rest of your process designed to find out who will really succeed?

Read more to learn how focusing on less information can help you make better hiring decisions. 

Success Story - Gardner Delivers Accelerated Long-Term Care Insurance System Early and Reduces Charge Backs by 90%

Lacking the appropriate internal IT talent, a Fortune 500 financial services organization outsourced the management responsibility of their long-term care insurance system to a consulting company that focused on systems integration.

Soon after they transferred this function, the firm experienced long delays in the reporting component of the system. Reports that were essential to manage the business were taking hours to generate. Because the consulting company was charging by the hour, not only did the client experience reporting lags, but struggled with significant cost overruns as well.

Neither the consulting company nor the client was able to identify the source of the problem, and they looked to Gardner Resources for the answer.

Read more to learn how Gardner exceeded project expectations in restoring the system to proper functioning.