by Warren Bobrow | Feb 6, 2018 | Pre-Employment Test Validation, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Test Validation
The U.S. has a lot of people who do not get a high school diploma. This can lead to significant barriers in employment and future opportunities in college. As a result, in 2013, over 500,000 people took and passed a high school equivalency exam (GED). This was a 20%...
by Warren Bobrow | Dec 13, 2017 | Culture, Leadership, Performance, Recruitment
This is an interesting time of the year in college football in the U.S., and not just because the final games are about to be played. As head coaches who had a poor year get fired (what should constitute the criteria for firing a college football coach is a topic for...
by Warren Bobrow | Jun 23, 2017 | Performance, Recruitment
I’ve written in the past about ensuring that job postings are free from potential discrimination. But, summer is also the time when we think about internships and attracting early career talent. No, this is not going to be a screed about millennials and their work...
by Warren Bobrow | May 24, 2017 | Employee Engagement, Performance, Recruitment, Talent Management, Training and Development
The state of California and several of its cities have been on the forefront of raising the minimum wage. The arguments for (people cannot live on the current minimum wage) and against (it will cost jobs because business will need to lay people off) it are familiar. ...
by Warren Bobrow | May 12, 2017 | Performance, Recruitment, Training and Development
In any employment market there are going to be jobs in high demand and those that go unfilled. In our tech driven economy, the jobs that are hard to recruit for range from utility lineman (long hours, hard work, and fabulous pay) and, strangely enough, cyber...
by Warren Bobrow | Feb 14, 2017 | Recruitment, Talent Management
When a consumer brand, especially a national one, looks for new hires, they are doing more than acquiring talent. They are making an impression on their customer base as much as any other piece of advertising. That in and of itself is not a revelation (or, at least...
