by Martin | Oct 25, 2026 | Carl Jung Psychology, Personality Profile, Personality Types, Psychometric Test
How two perfectly good psychological terms became misunderstood, and why personality labels can be misleading. When Carl Jung introduced the concepts of Introversion and Extraversion in his 1921 book Psychological Types, he was describing something quite different... by Martin | Oct 21, 2026 | Recruitment Training
Why Less Is More Why we deliberately restrict the number of personality gauges in our recruitment interview guides. PeopleMaps has hundreds of personality gauge scores available to us. We could easily produce interview reports containing dozens of gauges, giving... by Martin | Oct 15, 2026 | Retention
A Guide by Martin Gibbons, Author of Retention and CEO of PeopleMaps How to Improve New Hire Retention New hire retention is the percentage of new employees who stay long enough to become fully productive and pay back the cost of hiring them. This article shows what... by Martin | May 7, 2026 | Management and Leadership Styles
I will be honest with you. Awards are a strange thing. You do not sit down one morning and decide to win one. You just keep doing the work, day after day, trying to help the people in front of you. And then someone taps you on the shoulder and says: we think what you... by Martin | Dec 8, 2025 | Driving
Most organisations still treat risk as something external, something to do with equipment, processes or environment. Yet the research is unmistakable, accidents usually come from behaviour. People behave according to deeply ingrained psychological preferences, not... by Martin | Mar 11, 2025 | Personality Profile
At PeopleMaps, we’ve always believed that personality is about who you are—not the labels society assigns to you. That’s why we’ve made an important change: our personality questionnaire is now completely gender-neutral. Why Did We Remove Gender-Related Questions? The... by Martin | Jul 3, 2024 | Management and Leadership Styles
Understanding Staff Turnover and Retention Rates Staff turnover refers to the rate at which employees leave an organisation and are replaced by new hires. This includes both voluntary departures (resignations) and involuntary departures (terminations or layoffs).... by Martin | Mar 20, 2024 | In the Press, Media Room, Uncategorized
Very pleased to announce that I have been awarded the Most Influential CEO 2024 for staffing and recruitment. https://www.ceo-review.com/winners/peoplemaps-com-3/ Awards like this are important because they help get a message through the noise. Let’s face it... by Martin | Apr 25, 2023 | Recruitment Training
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn So how can Jigsaws help you with your recruitment? I was working with a client recently who has a staff turnover issue. As I started to investigate and gather information, it became apparent that there was insufficient understanding of the... by Martin | Mar 6, 2023 | Case Studies, Work Environment
This is who was at my client meeting last week. Isn’t he adorable? This boy lives in dog heaven. He spends all day at a pet food factory being fussed over by everyone that works there. When he meets dogs at the park and they ask him about his life, they will...
