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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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25 Good Interview Questions to Ask for Effective Hiring

The article "25 Good Interview Questions to Ask for Effective Hiring" stresses the importance of strategic interview questions in identifying top talent and ensuring a cultural fit within organisations. It stresses that effective questions not only...

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4 Steps to Develop a Successful Human Resource Strategy

To develop a human resource strategy, work through four steps: assess your business goals, evaluate your current HR capability against them, set...

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The Strategic Importance of Measuring Company Culture

You measure company culture because the gap between how work happens now and how your people believe it should happen predicts performance problems...

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Understanding Assessment Personality Tools and Their Impact

Personality assessment tools measure how people naturally behave and prefer to work, usually through structured self-report questionnaires....

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Product Update April

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Product Update April 2025

Follow our monthly product updates as we share the latest features to help you strategically design and develop teams and the work environment. Our...

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Understanding Attrition Rate: A Comprehensive Tutorial for HR Managers

Attrition rate is the percentage of employees who leave an organisation over a set period. You calculate it by dividing the number of departures by...

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What is a Job Description? Understanding Its Importance and Components

A job description is a formal document that sets out a role's purpose, essential duties, responsibilities and required qualifications. Done well, it...

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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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