by Warren Bobrow | Nov 10, 2016 | Leadership, Performance, Talent Management
Like many other businesses, baseball has undergone a significant change in how it uses data to evaluate talent (see Moneyball). As with all paradigm changes, this has encountered a fair amount of resistance, but now every team in the league uses some form of...
by Warren Bobrow | Oct 25, 2016 | Legal Issues, Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
The idea of implicit bias has been making its way into the business vernacular. It involves the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner. As you probably gathered from the definition, implicit bias is...
by Warren Bobrow | Oct 3, 2016 | Analysis, Performance, Pre-Employment Test Validation, Pre-Employment Testing, ROI, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Test Validation
In validating tests, getting a hold of good individual performance data is key. But, it is also one of the more difficult parts of the process to get right. Intuitively, we all think we can judge performance well (sort of like we all think we are good interviewers). ...
by Warren Bobrow | Jun 6, 2016 | Legal Issues, Performance, Talent Management
There’s been much talk about the new department of labor rule that will require overtime pay for salaried employees making less than $47,476 (the current threshold is $23,660) starting December 1, 2016. This threshold will now update every three years. This has led...
by Warren Bobrow | May 10, 2016 | Employee Engagement, Performance, Recruitment, Talent Management
To use a tired cliché, they call it Show Business for a reason. Fortunately, within the last 10 years or so, the news media in Los Angeles has been covering that industry as it would any other large one in the region. So, it made a local splash when the Chairman and...
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...
