by Warren Bobrow | Feb 26, 2016 | Job Analysis, Performance, Pre-Employment Test Validation, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Test Validation
You think you have it bad when hiring. Imagine if: All of your entry level job candidates were known to your entire industry and customers. You and all of your competitors had access to exactly the same background, pre-employment, and past performance data, outside of...
by Warren Bobrow | Feb 15, 2016 | Job Analysis, Performance, Pre-Employment Test Validation, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Test Validation
One of my favorite personality scales to administer is Openness to New Experiences. It is one of the “Big 5” personality constructs and is supported by a great deal of research. People who score high on this scale seek new experiences and to engage in...
by Warren Bobrow | Feb 8, 2016 | Employee Engagement, Legal Issues, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Talent Management
With great fanfare, Intel announced recently that it is making progress in meeting its diversity goals. I’m not going to pick on their numbers as their current demographics are what they are. There are some good lessons we can learn from how they approached the issue....
by Warren Bobrow | Feb 2, 2016 | Employee Engagement, Performance, Recruitment, Talent Management
For the life of me, I cannot understand why some companies go out of their way to treat their employees poorly. It starts innocuously, like putting employees last in a mission statement. Then it morphs into thinking that people are really machinery (scientific...
