by Warren Bobrow | Jun 26, 2014 | Employee Engagement, Legal Issues, Performance
I could write forever about the value of performance appraisals. Or, about how they are needless morale busters. Or, how necessary they are to document performance in the event you fire someone. Or, whether the best format is closed-ended, open-ended, or both. I’m not...
by Warren Bobrow | Jun 19, 2014 | Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, ROI, Talent Management
You know what would be the best way to select candidates? Have them work for you for about a year, evaluate their performance, then turn back the clock and make the right hire. However, that only happens in HR science fiction. In this post I read about how a business...
by Warren Bobrow | Jun 13, 2014 | Employee Engagement, Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, ROI, Surveys, Talent Management
The term “Big Data” really means nothing more than doing a deep analysis of the information you have. It’s “big” because we have more data than we used to have (bigger data would actually be the better term). The analytics really have more to do with being able to...
by Warren Bobrow | Jun 3, 2014 | Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management
I was reading yet another article about hiring better using only interviews (when will these supposedly smart CEOs ever learn?), when I saw the author stumble upon an important fact about selection: No one (or methodology) is perfect. She accepts an 80% success rate...
by Warren Bobrow | May 28, 2014 | Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Talent Management
I believe that we are in the golden age of recruiting. The talent pool hasn’t been this rich since the early 90’s. While the economy has been recovering, there are still plenty of talented unemployed (and underemployed) people. Technology has allowed for more...
