by Warren Bobrow | May 20, 2013 | Leadership, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management
I am a guest blogger this week on the Human Capital Institute website (and will be monthly for the next 6 months). This month I write about managing the leadership identification process at http://www.hci.org/blog/those-who-want-lead-vs-those-who-can. Feel free to...
by Warren Bobrow | May 15, 2013 | Pre-Employment Test Validtion, Pre-Employment Testing, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
When giving tests, especially for promotions, candidates who don’t move on in the process due to their scores always want to know when they can take the assessment again. Their assumption is that they’ll do better the next time they take the test. This is often a...
by Warren Bobrow | May 6, 2013 | Commitment, Leadership, Pre-Employment Testing, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
Several years ago, my graduate school mentor was talking to me about family trees and the conversation moved to academic ones. We talked about some people in the field and who their mentors were and how these branches formed different thought areas. I’m sure the...
by Warren Bobrow | Apr 30, 2013 | Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
In the end, recruiters are sales people. They find prospects (potential candidates), qualify them, and hopefully get the best into the hiring pipeline. Before job posting websites, to find candidates recruiters had to have great personal networks. There is still no...
by Warren Bobrow | Apr 22, 2013 | Leadership, Talent Management
I had a chance to present on innovations in assessment at the annual industrial and organizational psychology conference (SIOP) in Houston a couple of weeks ago. The panel was fun and engaging, I had a good time and learned a lot during those 90 minutes. The rest of...
