by Warren Bobrow | Feb 26, 2013 | Performance, Pre-Employment Test Validtion, Pre-Employment Testing, ROI, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
Pre-employment tests are used for a lot of different jobs—everything from entry level clerks to executives. One of the best known users of tests is a consortium of 32 companies that uses tests for their 1760 “front of the house” employees. I am speaking of the...
by Warren Bobrow | Feb 19, 2013 | Assessment Centers, Leadership, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
The Sunday NY Times had an interesting interview with Daniel Hendrix of Interface, Inc. The primary focus of the discussion was on Hendrix’s views on work-life balance and delegation. That message is important to leaders who are working way too much. Unless you are...
by Warren Bobrow | Feb 11, 2013 | Employee Engagement, Performance, Talent Management
I am more than open to the argument that most performance appraisal systems are mean, misguided, and do not improve performance. Many are designed to be punitive rather than part of a coaching process. Supervisors hate doing them because they are time consuming and...
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...
