Is Who THEY Know the Best Person for YOU to Hire?

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...

What if Someone Doesn’t Interview Well?

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...

This Interview is Really About Me

by Warren Bobrow | Jan 7, 2013 | Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Test Validation

I’m always interested in reading about leadership and selection issues from a different perspective.  As in any field, HR (and industrial psychology) can become an echo chamber of the same ideas without generating much new thought.  With that in mind, I was fascinated...

How Much Does Training Cost?

by Warren Bobrow | Dec 18, 2012 | Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, ROI, Talent Management, Training and Development

Most employees need training after they are hired, particularly at the entry level.  If you read here regularly, you know that I’m a big proponent of using validated selection tools when hiring and promoting.  It’s just more cost effective. Recently, I was reading...

If You Want to Lead, Please Raise Your Hand

by Warren Bobrow | Dec 11, 2012 | Leadership, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Training and Development

I was at an event for healthcare executives last week and one of the panel discussions was on which leadership skills are needed for the future in the industry.  Afterwards, I spoke to some on the panel and a few other attendees and asked them, “How do you identify...

How Strategy Fits with Buying or Developing Talent

by Warren Bobrow | Nov 5, 2012 | Leadership, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Training and Development

There was big news recently about Disney’s decision to buy LucasFilm, George Lucas’s company which is best known for owning the Star Wars franchise (movies, books, consumer products tie-ins, etc.) and the special effects house Industrial Light and Magic.  Disney made...