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View all featured posts, articles by Rudy Crous, (Corporate Psychologist, Compono CEO and Co-founder), or filter below for your desired topic.

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Best approach to hiring in community and private hospitals

The best approach to hiring in community and private hospitals requires a dual focus on clinical competency and cultural alignment to mitigate operational risks while ensuring high-quality patient outcomes.

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How to choose the best certification management software

Choosing certification management software comes down to five checks: automated expiry alerts, self-service uploads with verification, reporting an...

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How to improve candidate experience for better hiring

To improve candidate experience, take the friction out of your application, tell people what happens next and when, run interviews that do not make...

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Effective employee training: a guide to building better teams

Effective employee training is training that changes behaviour on the job, not training that gets completed. It starts with a clear gap analysis,...

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Choosing the right recruitment software for your team

Choose recruitment software by working backwards from your bottlenecks: too few candidates, too many wrong ones, or a process that loses good people...

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Franchise HR software: how to scale culture and consistency

HR software for franchises is a multi-site system that lets head office hold one hiring, onboarding and engagement standard while each franchisee...

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Culture-fit vs culture-add: a guide to smarter hiring

Culture fit means hiring people who align with your team's existing values and ways of working. Culture add means hiring people who bring a...

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Effective examples of good feedback for 2026 workplaces

Finding the right words to guide your team shouldn't feel like navigating a minefield without a map. In 2026, the traditional annual performance...

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Hiring bias software: how to build fairer recruitment teams

Hiring bias software reduces bias in recruitment by standardising how every candidate is screened, assessed and scored, then reporting the numbers...

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How to maintain audit-ready training records

Training records are audit-ready when every completion, certificate, expiry date and assessment result is accurate, current and stored somewhere...

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The Six Learning Science Principles We Live By

The six learning science principles that make training stick are retrieval practice, spaced...
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7 Free Personality Tests for Employees to Boost Engagement

For team design, start with the Compono Work Personality™ assessment. It is free, takes four...
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How to post job ads on LinkedIn: A step-by-step guide for HR managers

To post a job ad on LinkedIn: log into your company Page, go to the Jobs section and select the...
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Full Research: Latest HR & Talent Statistics (August 2026)

Last reviewed August 2026 This page collects the HR, talent acquisition, engagement, culture and...
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Predictive index results types: understanding the 17 profiles

Predictive Index results are grouped into 17 reference profiles across four categories: Analytical,...
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What is proficiency levels: a guide to mapping team skills

Last reviewed August 2026 Competency levels (also called proficiency levels or levels of expertise)...
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Understanding Performance Evaluation Bias for HR Managers

Last reviewed August 2026 Bias in performance appraisal is a systematic error in judgement that...
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Conscientiousness in the workplace: the ultimate guide

Conscientiousness is one of the Big Five personality traits: the tendency to be organised and...
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