by Warren Bobrow | Mar 5, 2013 | Performance, Pre-Employment Test Validtion, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
I was recently interviewed by David Hadobas of CCNG about using validation selection for hiring. Specifically, we talked about using tests to correctly place people based on their abilities in call centers. But, we talked about managerial selection as well. Give it...
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 | 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...
by Warren Bobrow | Oct 22, 2012 | Leadership, Pre-Employment Test Validtion, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment
Imagine you are the V.P. of H.R. (or other position where you are responsible for the quality of people being hired by your organization) and your C.E.O is quoted in a national newspaper with the following excerpt: Q. Give me an example of how you [get a sense of...
by Warren Bobrow | Sep 17, 2012 | Performance, Pre-Employment Test Validtion, Recruitment, Surveys, Talent Management, Training and Development
Let’s say you’re about to purchase an employment related test. It could be for hiring entry level personnel, help make a promotional decision or for providing feedback to people on their skills. There are about 50,000 of these available and several that purport to...
by Warren Bobrow | Jun 22, 2012 | Performance, Pre-Employment Test Validtion, Pre-Employment Testing, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Test Validation
A recent journal article called into question whether performance really does look like a bell curve. You know, the distribution of anything that is flat towards the ends and fat in the middle. I have some quibbles with the article, particularly whether we would...
