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Adam Robinson is Co-Founder and CEO of Hireology, where he’s on a mission to help…

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Publications

  • The Beat Team Wins: Build Your Business Through Predictive Hiring

    Greenleaf Publishing

    Reduce hiring risks and predict success.

    New mind-set.

    In The Best Team Wins, author Adam Robinson gives you a proven, straightforward, and effective method for hiring new employees. He teaches you how to rethink the process of finding, assessing, and hiring the right people.

    New methods.

    Robinson, a recruiting professional with over 20 years' experience, shows you how to:

    - Use a data-driven job profile to assess candidate risk
    - Build a candidate…

    Reduce hiring risks and predict success.

    New mind-set.

    In The Best Team Wins, author Adam Robinson gives you a proven, straightforward, and effective method for hiring new employees. He teaches you how to rethink the process of finding, assessing, and hiring the right people.

    New methods.

    Robinson, a recruiting professional with over 20 years' experience, shows you how to:

    - Use a data-driven job profile to assess candidate risk
    - Build a candidate scorecard
    - Rate the candidate's core competencies
    - Ask the right questions to dig deeper in interviews
    - Craft an offer the candidate can't refuse
    Better results.

    By following Robinson's in-depth process, you can eliminate guesswork and focus on building a team that will bring value to your company's culture and bottom line.

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  • 5 Ways Venture Capital Can Steal Your Dream

    Entrepreneur Magazine

    Many entrepreneurs chase VC funding, but the ones who fail to get it may be better off than those who do.

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  • The 4 Punishing Costs of Making a Bad Hire

    Entrepreneur Magazine

    One of the simplest, yet often overlooked ways a business can lose money is from bad hires. Making poor hiring decisions is akin to creating a hidden tax on your business. There’s no line item on your income statement called “bad hires,” but the impact on your finances is very real.

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  • 3 Reasons Why Your Hiring Process Is Killing Your Company

    Entrepreneur Magazine

    Your company’s hiring process determines whether or not your enterprise is destined for failure or success. It’s that simple.

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  • The Key to Rapid Scale? Authentic Core Values

    Entrepreneur Magazine

    If you’re planning for big revenue growth, it’s time to start thinking about whether or not your company’s people are ready to handle it.

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  • 4 Interview Questions to Identify Top Performing Salespeople

    Recruiter.com

    A great salesperson has a unique combination of skills—a combination that is difficult to find and just as difficult to interview for. They have to balance persuasion with likability, relationship quality with quantity, and your company’s reputation with the need to make the sale. And this is just the beginning.

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  • Four Tips To Build Your Remote Technology Team

    ERE Media

    It has been over a year since Yahoo! announced it would no longer allow employees to work remotely. While industry analysts warned of the impact this could have on other companies’ remote work programs, hiring trends suggest the opposite. According to Forrester Research, 34 million Americans currently work from home. In just two years, this number is expected to top 63 million – or 43 percent of the entire US workforce.

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  • How to Make Your Top Salesperson Quit

    Entrepreneurs Organization

    When it comes to work, sales can be tricky— it’s a stressful part of the business equation that can make or break companies. Believe it or not, most companies tend to drive their top-producing salespeople out of the organization and into the welcoming arms of the competition. After all the time and effort they expend to locate, hire and train top producers, why do most of them do things that make their top salespeople quit?

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  • Hiring for Your Store: Beyond the Job Boards

    Canadian Business Franchise

    Successful franchises have put systems in place for just about everything, from signing up and training new franchisees and their management teams to selecting, leasing and/or building out locations to managing point-of-sale (POS) functions, schedules and payroll. Some franchisors have even built proprietary systems for ordering and managing inventory, scheduling meetings and marketing their business.

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  • How to Hire in Chicago

    Technori

    Hireology CEO Adam Robinson interviews experienced Chicago tech entrepreneurs and gets their take on hiring and the Chicago startup scene.

    Other authors
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Patents

  • System and Method for Job Candidate Selection

    Filed US 61/614,351

    Method for dynamically generating a job profile based on certain expectations for performance and outcomes, and then using that profile as a basis for underwriting the risk of a particular candidate not being able to achieve the performance and outcomes defined.

    Other inventors
    • Margot Baill

Honors & Awards

  • Crain's Fast 50 - #10

    Crain's Chicago Business

    Hireology was ranked #10 on Crain's list of Chicago's fastest-growing private companies.

  • Deloitte Fast 500 - #401

    Deloitte

    Hireology was ranked #401 on the 2020 Deloitte Fast 500, marking the company's 4th year in a row on this list.

  • Top Company Cultures, Medium Enterprise

    Entrepreneur

    Hireology was ranked as the #12 best company cultures in America in 2018.

  • Chicago's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For

    101 Best and Brightest

    The Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® competition identifies and honors organizations that display a commitment to excellence in their human resource practices and employee enrichment. Organizations are assessed based on categories such as communication, work-life balance, employee education, diversity, recognition, retention and more.

  • EY Entrepreneur of the Year - Finalist

    EY

    Entrepreneur Of The Year®, founded by EY, is the world’s most prestigious business awards program for entrepreneurs, chosen from an independent panel of judges including entrepreneurs and prominent leaders from business, finance, and the local community.

  • Deloitte Fast 500 - #102

    Deloitte

    Deloitte’s ranking of the 500 fastest-growing companies in the United States.

  • #332 on the 2017 Inc. 500

    Inc.

    Hireology was named #332 on the 2017 Inc. 500 list of America's fastest-growing private companies, with a three year growth rate of 1,338%

  • 50 Best Workplaces in America

    Inc. Magazine

    Inc. Magazine's annual ranking of the 50 top-ranked workplaces.

  • EY Entrepreneur of the Year - Finalist

    EY

    Entrepreneur Of The Year®, founded by EY, is the world’s most prestigious business awards program for entrepreneurs, chosen from an independent panel of judges including entrepreneurs and prominent leaders from business, finance, and the local community.

  • #94 on 2016 Inc. 500

    Inc. Magazine

    Hireology was named #94 on the 2016 Inc. 500 list of America's fastest-growing private companies, with a three year growth rate of 3,400%

  • Rising Star Award - Hireology

    Illinois Technology Association

    Presented to the company with the strongest potential to emerge as a leader in the technology industry.

  • Chicago's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For

    101 Best and Brightest

    The Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® competition identifies and honors organizations that display a commitment to excellence in their human resource practices and employee enrichment. Organizations are assessed based on categories such as communication, work-life balance, employee education, diversity, recognition, retention and more.

  • Crain’s Chicago - Tech50

    Crain's Chicago Business

    Crain's Tech 50 is your guide to the city's sweeping technology ecosystem: founders, CEOs, technologists, risk takers, investors and up-and-comers whose names you should know.
    http://www.chicagobusiness.com/section/tech-50

  • TechWeek100 Chicago 2016

    TechWeek

    Announced in each city leading up to our annual Techweek festival, Techweek100 ushers in a season to celebrate the tech community and its members for its recent successes and promising developments.The wide-ranging set of industries represented by these Innovators speaks to the growing vitality of innovation in the city, which has garnered national as well as local attention in recent months.

  • Top Company Culture, Medium Enterprise

    Entrepreneur Magazine

    Hireology was recognized as one of the top 25 company cultures in America in 2015.

  • Top 25 HR Game Changers Under 40

    Workforce Magazine

    Workforce’s staff selected the 25 winners of the fifth-annual competition. They are a diverse group representing some of the best HR practitioners and strategists under 40 years old.

  • Chicago Tribune - Chicago's Top Technology Innovators

    Chicago Tribune

    The Chicago Tribune's list of the top digital innovators in Chicago.

  • Chicago's Best Places to Work for GenX

    Crain's Chicago Business

  • Chicago's Best Places to Work for Millennials

    Crain's Chicago Business

Organizations

  • American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA)

    Management Committee

    - Present

  • YPO - Chicago Chapter

    Member

    - Present

  • Economic Club of Chicago

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    - Present

    The Economic Club of Chicago fosters meaningful connections among Chicago leaders to encourage dialogue on important economic and social issues and to cultivate the next generation of civic leadership.

  • International Franchise Association

    Supplier Forum Advisory Board

    - Present

  • Coleman Entrepreneurship Center at DePaul University

    Board of Advisors

    - Present

  • Entrepreneurs Organization

    Board of Directors, Chicago Chapter

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