Avoid Hiring Potentially Violent or Dangerous Employees: New Testing and Other Techniques You Can Use Today

Description

News flashes recently reported a violent employee murdered eight employees and then committed suicide – at a company in Connecticut. Another incident involved a hostage takeover at a major cable provider’s headquarters. No wonder employers feel more concerned than ever about detecting potentially violent job applicants—before they hire potentially dangerous applicants.

As an HR professional screening out potentially violent and dangerous job applicants starts with you. You and your employees’ lives—plus your company’s financial existence and reputation—depend on it.

Unfortunately, there are very few solid tools employers and HR professionals can use to do this. Besides employment history verification, background checks and, of course, face-to-face interviews, there is little else employers have to predict which applicants may act aggressive or violent.

However, a new set of pre-employment tests and other techniques hopes to solve that problem. If used correctly, and with minimal effort, employers can employ these new tests to help weed out candidates that may have tendencies to commit violence.

Taught by respected book author and management psychologist Dr. Michael Mercer, this 90-minute interactive session will give you techniques, examples of test results that help predict a possibly dangerous applicant, methods to administer pre-employment test—plus many more techniques—to help you spot potentially dangerous candidates before they get into your company.

Important: You also will learn how to carefully reject a dangerous applicant and avoid retaliation.

Dr. Mercer also will show you examples of test results of applicants that could predict if someone is potentially dangerous to others. You will see how you can modify and improve your pre-employment screening to help you uncover an applicant’s possibly aggressive or violent tendencies

Learning Points:

• Two types of pre-employment tests help you predict possible violence or aggressiveness
• Examples of pre-employment test scores of applicants who may exhibit troublemaking or dangerous behaviors on-the-job – if you hire them
• Importance of only using tests that “catch” applicants who try to lie on the test
• How does a well-researched test “catch” an applicant who tries to give answers to falsely seem “better or different” than s/he really is?
• One frightfully common—and incorrect way—some tests try to catch liars who try to fool those tests
• Three interview tactics you can use to help detect if an applicant might be a troublemaker
• What if I currently have a pre-screening process in place? How quickly and easily can I use these techniques to help me determine if a candidate may have a tendency toward violence?
• Four legal rules you should keep in mind when you screen job applicants
• Five unique—and amazingly useful—ways to screen job applicants
• If you work in an industry that does not normally have violent employees, what should you be most concerned about – so you do not put violent people on your payroll?
• What if you work in industry that often has employees with violent pasts?
• What are signs you should watch for?
• Two techniques to reject a job applicant.
• WARNING: Troublemakers sometimes react in dangerous ways when you do not hire them!! You’ll learn how to reject a job applicant – to decrease chance the rejected applicant may “bother you” or “give you a hard time” or “stalk” you.

Recording Date

Speakers

 Michael Mercer
Dr. Mercer is founder and president of The Mercer Group, Inc. in Barrington, Illinois. He is also a frequent speaker, business psychologist, and book author and has provided organizations with expertise in profit improvement techniques, hiring expertise, and other HR-related issues. Dr. Mercer authored the groundbreaking, top-selling HR book entitled Turning Your Human Resources Department into a Profit Center™. He has appeared on over 400 radio and TV talk shows including Oprah, Leeza, and the TODAY SHOW, plus shows on ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNBC, CNN, BRN, and NPR. Articles quoting Dr. Mercer have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Industry Week, Gannett Newswire, Exec, Self, Investor’s Daily, Working Woman, UPI, and U.S. News & World Report.

Presentation Materials

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