by Warren Bobrow | Dec 16, 2013 | Performance, Pre-Employment Test Validtion, Pre-Employment Testing, ROI, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Test Validation
Each time I read an article in the business press on Big Data and hiring I chuckle. The authors always make it sound like businesses have just recently discovered how to measure attributes about lots of people and apply them to hiring. The only difference now is...
by Warren Bobrow | Oct 7, 2013 | Analysis, Legal Issues, Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, ROI
As of this writing it is a bad time to write about government productivity given the current shutdown in Washington. But, in many places local government is one of the largest employers and their HR policies (and how they are managed) have a big impact. In Los...
by Warren Bobrow | Aug 13, 2013 | Pre-Employment Testing, ROI, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
Creating content specific knowledge tests is a time intensive proposition. When the company using them does not anticipate a lot of openings, the return-on-investment of those tests can be questionable. For these reasons, I am taking a foray into crowd-sourced...
by Warren Bobrow | Apr 8, 2013 | Performance, ROI, Talent Management
As politicians talk about raising the minimum wage, free agent football players are getting new contracts, and there being some focus on retailers who pay a significantly higher wage than their competitors, it’s as good of a time as any to talk about the relationship...
by Warren Bobrow | Mar 11, 2013 | Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, ROI, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
I’m not an economist (nor do I play one on TV), but reading the economic data, it is hard not to conclude that hiring is at least slightly on the rise. Given that we are still pulling out of a recession and high unemployment, the talent pool is as good as it’s been...
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...
