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Keep the Pretenders Out and Bring the Right People In. Whether you're hiring a new recruit or selecting a consulting firm, it's essential to filter out the great pretenders and misfits before they ever step foot in your business. At JammTrain, our proven 5-Step Confident Hiring Process, powered by Winslow Assessments, significantly boosts your recruitment success. Our 5-Step Confident Hiring Process: Document Filter – Weed out unqualified candidates early. KnockOut Interviews – Quickly identify poor fits through focused screening. Position Analysis with Winslow Assessments – Scientifically match personality traits to role requirements. Imprinting Interview(s) – Align expectations and company culture. Positive Transition – Ensure smooth onboarding and long-term success. With Winslow Assessments providing scientifically validated insights and JammTrain leading the way in innovative hiring strategies, you're equipped with a powerful edge. Why JammTrain? Since 2022, we’ve been recognised for excellence on national and global stages: Gold Winner – Australian Training Awards (in partnership with APT) and this April named one of the “50 Best Companies to Watch in 2025” – The Silicon Review. When it comes to hiring confidently, predicting and cultivating success, JammTrain delivers results you can trust. Want to learn more? Let's talk!

Confident Hiring: How to Keep Pretenders and Misfits Out of Your Business at Any Age. Whether you're hiring a new team member or selecting a consulting firm to partner with, one thing is clear—you can't afford to get it wrong. The wrong hire doesn’t just waste time and money; it can disrupt team dynamics, stall growth, and erode culture.That’s why, at JammTrain, we’ve adopted a proven system to help you hire with confidence. The 5-Step Confident Hiring Process, powered by Winslow Assessments, is designed to dramatically improve your recruitment success rate by filtering out the "great young and old pretenders" before they ever get close to your business. The 5-Step Confident Hiring Process. 1-Document Filter: Eliminate unsuitable candidates early through a smart screening of resumes and applications. No more time wasted on fluff. 2-KnockOut Interviews: Conduct short, focused, technology autioated interviews to quickly identify red flags or poor fits. Fast, efficient, and revealing. 3-Position Analysis Using Winslow Assessments: This is where the science kicks in. The Winslow Assessment objectively measures personality traits, ensuring candidates match the specific behavioral and psychological requirements of the role. It’s validated, reliable, and powerfully insightful. 4-Imprinting Interview(s): Align expectations and values. This step ensures candidates understand your culture and you understand how they’ll thrive (or not) within it. 5-Positive Transition: Hiring doesn’t end at offer acceptance. Ideally you should support a smooth onboarding process, setting both candidate and company up for long-term success. Backed by Science, Proven by Awards. While Winslow Assessments bring the scientific validation, JammTrain brings the results—recognised across Australia and globally for our impact in workforce development. GOLD Winner – Australian Training Awards, in collaboration with APT. Named a “Top 50 Company to Watch in 2025” – The Silicon Review (SR 2025). Since 2022, we’ve been consistently acknowledged for innovation and excellence in hiring and training strategies. Ready to Hire Confidently? Don't let guesswork or gut-feel sabotage your next hire. With JammTrain, you can trust a process built on insight, science, and proven results. Let’s help make your next hire your best one yet. Like to learn more? Let's talk!

We get it—sometimes a candidate just feels right. Maybe they remind you of a top performer. Maybe they nailed the interview with confidence, charisma, and all the right buzzwords. But here’s the catch: Just because we like a candidate doesn’t mean they’ll succeed in the role. In fact, liking a candidate can create more problems than it solves. It clouds judgment, overshadows objective data, and can lead to costly hiring mistakes. And companies are paying the price—billions, in fact! The Stats Don’t Lie. Most companies only hire correctly around half the time. According to Gallup, global employee engagement has slipped from 23% to 21% since the pandemic. Meanwhile, disengaged and toxic employees are on the rise. Why? A big part of the problem lies in who we hire—and how. Meet the Two Classic Hiring Mistakes:The Great Pretender: They interview like a superstar, but underdeliver once hired. These candidates are polished, persuasive, and know how to tell you what you want to hear—but they’re not built for the role. The Understated Achiever: They might stumble in the interview or fail to “sell themselves,” but in the right environment, they’re absolute rockstars. Often overlooked, they thrive where hiring decisions are made using real data—not gut feel. So… How Do You Avoid Hiring the Wrong One? Start by shifting focus from likeability to predictability. That’s where tools like Winslow Assessments and structured hiring processes (like our 5-Step Confident Hiring Process) come in. They help you look beyond surface impressions to what really matters—performance potential. If you’re tired of rolling the dice on hiring, no fluff, no romance—just smart hiring that works. `want to learn more? Let's talk!

Why Bad Bosses Are Killing Your Productivity (And What To Do About It). Let’s face it: Australia’s productivity problem isn’t about lazy workers or outdated tech. It’s about bad bosses. A recent headline from news.com.au says it all: “Simple trick to boost Australia’s productivity as workers turned off by bad bosses.” The message is clear—and it’s a wake-up call for every business leader. If your staff are disengaged, looking elsewhere, or just going through the motions, the culprit is likely staring back at you from the corner office. At JammTrain, we’ve seen it time and again: talented people leave managers, not companies. The data backs it up—poor leadership is the #1 reason employees quit. Yet too many businesses focus on flashy perks or recruitment gimmicks, ignoring the elephant in the room: toxic pockets in management. Here’s the real “simple trick” to boosting productivity: invest in your people leaders.Train them to listen, inspire, and coach—not just manage.Create a culture where feedback flows both ways. Hold managers accountable for the wellbeing and development of their teams. It’s not rocket science. When people feel respected and supported, they’ll go the extra mile. When they’re micromanaged or undervalued, they’ll quietly quit—or walk out the door. If your business is struggling to attract or keep great staff, don’t blame the talent pool. Look inward. Are your managers part of the solution—or part of the problem? At JammTrain, we help organisations break free from the bad boss cycle. Because when you get leadership right, everything else falls into place. Ready to transform your team? Let’s talk!

Most HR, Recruitment, and People & Culture leaders I speak with believe they have a pretty good handle on assessing a candidate’s personality during interviews—and predicting how they’ll perform once onboarded. The problem? There are over 101 types of human bias that distort objective hiring and turn the process into little more than a coin toss. At JammTrain, we use Winslow’s 5-Step Confident Hiring Process to keep the great pretenders and misfits out of your business:🔹 Step 1: AI-assisted document screening to filter a long list of candidates into a much shorter, high-potential list. 🔹 Step 2: Automated knockout interviews in two parts: PART A: 4 quick video responses (under 90 seconds) recorded via smartphone by candidates on: A) BIGGEST RISK joining your company; B) ADDING VALUE to your company; C) MEMORABLE MISTAKES and D) What would make them COMPLETELY CONTENT working for you 18 months from now; PART B: 15-question recorded human-led interview, focused on predicting fit and success.🔹 Step 3: Position Analysis where Winslow Assessments are used to rank the top 2–3 candidates based on their success probability and number of coachable and uncoachable concerns.🔹 Step 4: An Imprinting Interview with the preferred candidate(s) to openly negotiate the key behaviours expected for success.🔹 Step 5: A Positive Transition deploying Transition Coaching to maximise positive onboarding and fast-track performance. The right people in the right roles changes everything. If you’re serious about hiring right the first time—let’s talk!