by Warren Bobrow | May 2, 2017 | Pre-Employment Testing, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
Interviews are worse predictors of job success than you think. And I do not care if you don’t think very highly of them as you read this, it’s still lower. Yet, there is an insistence that they are better than they are and no company I know of is willing to give...
by Warren Bobrow | Apr 17, 2017 | Commitment, Employee Engagement, Performance, Talent Management
As long as there have been workers, management has looked for ways to manage performance. In the case of piece work, it was mostly used to provide incentives for productivity. As the economy became more service oriented, performance was also measured so that...
by Warren Bobrow | Feb 28, 2017 | 360 Feedback, Assessment Centers, Leadership, Performance, Talent Management
At a recent professional conference I attended there was a lot of talk about high potentials. Specifically, how to best measure potential versus actual performance (good luck getting managers to understand the difference). The idea of identifying high potentials...
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...
by Warren Bobrow | Feb 8, 2017 | Pre-Employment Test Validation, Recruitment, Talent Management
I am going to write about an issue with political ramifications while doing my best not to be political, so please accept these thoughts in that light. One thread going through the proposed ban on legal immigration to the U.S. is the effect it will have on the tech...
by Warren Bobrow | Jan 30, 2017 | Performance, Talent Management
I’m always curious to hear of innovative (or, crazy, depending on one’s viewpoint) methods of increasing employee engagement and productivity. I wrote about a year ago about a company in Seattle where the CEO increased the minimum wage to $70,000 (and they are still...
