by Warren Bobrow | Jan 29, 2013 | Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Talent Management
I’ll admit right now that recruiting is not my specialty. You find them, I’ll assess them. However, this article in the NY Times caught my eye. It describes how some companies are aggressively encouraging employee referrals of job candidates. While the article...
by Warren Bobrow | Jan 21, 2013 | Pre-Employment Test Validtion, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
Here’s one of my hiring pet peeves: When talking about assessment, a manager says, “What if the person doesn’t test well? Do we still have to use the test results?” As with every question, I first try to think through why it was asked. Had this person failed a...
by Warren Bobrow | Jan 7, 2013 | Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Test Validation
I’m always interested in reading about leadership and selection issues from a different perspective. As in any field, HR (and industrial psychology) can become an echo chamber of the same ideas without generating much new thought. With that in mind, I was fascinated...
