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 | Sep 24, 2014 | Legal Issues, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management
Welcome back! Yes, the blog has been on hiatus. Some was vacation, but the last several weeks have been spent on a website upgrade. I hope that after you read this week’s entry you’ll take some time to check out the rest of the site (www.allaboutperformance.biz). I’m...
by Warren Bobrow | Jul 9, 2014 | Legal Issues, Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, ROI, Talent Management
In a post a few months ago, I wrote about the city of Los Angeles selecting which applicants for their firefighter positions would move on in the process based on whether they got their applications in immediately after the opening period. This was deemed as being...
by Warren Bobrow | Jun 19, 2014 | Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, ROI, Talent Management
You know what would be the best way to select candidates? Have them work for you for about a year, evaluate their performance, then turn back the clock and make the right hire. However, that only happens in HR science fiction. In this post I read about how a business...
by Warren Bobrow | Jun 13, 2014 | Employee Engagement, Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, ROI, Surveys, Talent Management
The term “Big Data” really means nothing more than doing a deep analysis of the information you have. It’s “big” because we have more data than we used to have (bigger data would actually be the better term). The analytics really have more to do with being able to...
by Warren Bobrow | Jun 3, 2014 | Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management
I was reading yet another article about hiring better using only interviews (when will these supposedly smart CEOs ever learn?), when I saw the author stumble upon an important fact about selection: No one (or methodology) is perfect. She accepts an 80% success rate...
