by Warren Bobrow | Oct 7, 2014 | Legal Issues, Pre-Employment Test Validtion, Pre-Employment Testing, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
I’ve written before (here and here) on the LA Fire Department’s struggles in implementing a valid and fair way to hire firefighters. They started with a poorly conceived random system that favored those with inside knowledge to cull the applicant pool. Then the...
by Warren Bobrow | Feb 28, 2014 | Legal Issues, Pre-Employment Testing, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
Let me start by saying that I have a lot of respect for my I/O psychology colleagues who work in the public sector. They work under many constraints that the private sector does not and their selection systems face much greater scrutiny. And they also have to deal...
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 | Dec 9, 2013 | Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Test Validation
After the 1992 riots, the City of LA decided it needed 10,000 police on the streets (I have no idea how they came up with that number, except that it’s sexier than 9,423). The LA Times reports that officials blame budget cuts which have reduced recruiting campaigns. ...
by Warren Bobrow | Sep 17, 2013 | Leadership, Performance, Skills Assessment
I came across some interesting data in Sports Illustrated about player challenges in professional tennis. In the biggest tournaments, a player can ask for a video review of an official’s call (whether the ball was in or out). If the player is correct, s/he keeps the...
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...
