by Warren Bobrow | Jan 28, 2021 | Employee Engagement, Pre-Employment Test Validation, Pre-Employment Testing, Surveys
One of the most intuitively appealing HR concepts is that of the exit interview. If we only knew what was going through the mind of those who chose to leave our company, we could fix our turnover problems. The thing is that there is more than enough...
by Warren Bobrow | Jan 5, 2021 | Culture, DE&I, Employee Engagement, Managing Change
Events of 2020 accelerated companies’ interest in all things around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). This has brought out a lot of “experts” in the field and a multitude of unconscious bias training (UBT) programs to address the problem of...
by Warren Bobrow | Nov 6, 2020 | Employee Engagement, Managing Change, Recruitment, Skills Assessment
OK, let’s all take a deep breath and say it out loud, “Work from home is not going to be temporary.” There, we did it. Now let’s talk about it. We need to acknowledge that WFM is not going to be one size fits all from an organization’s standpoint. ...
by Warren Bobrow | Aug 19, 2020 | Culture, Employee Engagement, WFH
The pendulum normally swings back when we see paradigms shift. As many companies made the move to work from home (WFH) with the onset of COVID-19, this article (which lacks data, by the way) there may be some rumblings from some companies to bring people back to...
by Warren Bobrow | Apr 16, 2019 | Employee Engagement, Talent Management
Biographical information (biodata) has been used to predict turnover and performance for a long time. The idea is that certain verifiable aspects of a person’s life are indicators of future behavior. To use an adage from an earlier time, if a person has changed jobs...
by Warren Bobrow | Aug 22, 2018 | Employee Engagement, Pre-Employment Test Validation, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management, Test Validation
On some occasions I have mentioned that companies that need blue-collar workers are in a tough spot. Their jobs are not very sexy to the millennial or Gen Z workforces who prefer tech jobs. Also, because lifetime wages are significantly higher for jobs that require a...
