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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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The top employee engagement questionnaires to boost team morale

An employee engagement questionnaire measures how connected people feel to their work, their team, their manager and their organisation. The most used formats are Gallup Q12-style surveys, eNPS, regular pulse checks and culture surveys. Below are...

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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 option to post a job, fill in the job details, choose...

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Best practices for asking interview questions that work

Optimising the hiring process can feel like a Herculean task, especially when it comes to interviews. Crafting the right interview questions is more...

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4 steps to implement a Work Personality test for your team

Implementing a work personality test takes four steps: choose a test that is validated for workplace use, set clear objectives and prepare your team,...

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7 Essential Tools to Enhance Manager Skills for HR Leaders

The most useful tools for building manager skills combine insight into how people work with structured capability development. For HR leaders, seven...

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Define Manage Up: Essential Strategies for HR Managers

Managing up means building a productive working relationship with your manager by understanding their goals, communication style and pressures, then...

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Sample Interview Questions and Answers for Effective Hiring

In human resource management, a job discussion is the structured conversation between an employer and a candidate or employee about a role: what the...

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Comparative Analysis of Software for Recruitment Solutions

Recruitment software falls into a handful of categories: applicant tracking systems (ATS) that manage active applications, recruitment CRMs that...

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Workforce engagement: building a thriving, connected workplace

Workforce engagement is the emotional commitment employees feel toward their work and organisation, shown in the discretionary effort they choose to...

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The Six Learning Science Principles We Live By

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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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