by Warren Bobrow | Jan 2, 2018 | Job Analysis, Performance, Pre-Employment Test Validation, Pre-Employment Testing, Skills Assessment, Test Validation
Welcome to 2018! This first link actually highlights a look at valid personality testing on a largely read website. This makes me think that the year is off to a good start in the field. Along those same lines of predicting behavior, a line of thought has always been...
by Warren Bobrow | Oct 24, 2017 | Leadership, Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management
Whenever I teach about leadership the participants and I talk about the value of charisma. Not surprisingly, most of those in the workshop feel that the most effective leaders are these larger-than-life figures. That is, until we start talking about ones that are not...
by Warren Bobrow | Jul 10, 2017 | Pre-Employment Test Validation, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management
Since age bias is something that could affect nearly all HR professionals, I am surprised that it does not get more attention. But, with the average age of employees in the U.S. going up (see here) and companies likely to recruit more older workers due to the...
by Warren Bobrow | May 2, 2017 | Pre-Employment Testing, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
Interviews are worse predictors of job success than you think. And I do not care if you don’t think very highly of them as you read this, it’s still lower. Yet, there is an insistence that they are better than they are and no company I know of is willing to give...
by Warren Bobrow | Jan 24, 2017 | Assessment Centers, Performance, Pre-Employment Test Validation, Pre-Employment Testing, ROI, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
Something I hear frequently from clients is, “I wish I had a day/week/month to see my candidates do the job. Then I would make fewer hiring mistakes.” It is, of course, an intriguing idea. We test drive cars before we buy them. Why not try out people before we...
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...
