Is Seeing Really Believing?

by Warren Bobrow | Jan 24, 2017 | Assessment Centers, Performance, Pre-Employment Test Validation, Pre-Employment Testing, ROI, Skills Assessment, Talent Management

Something I hear frequently from clients is, “I wish I had a day/week/month to see my candidates do the job.  Then I would make fewer hiring mistakes.”  It is, of course, an intriguing idea.  We test drive cars before we buy them.  Why not try out people before we...

Learning to Manage

by Warren Bobrow | Dec 8, 2016 | Assessment Centers, Leadership, Pre-Employment Test Validation, Skills Assessment, Talent Management, Training and Development

I cannot tell you how many times I have worked with a client who has told me some sort of story about how they promote from within, but have a problem with the supervisors and/or managers not being able to let go of wanting to do the technical work instead of managing...

What Implicit Bias Looks Like

by Warren Bobrow | Oct 25, 2016 | Legal Issues, Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management

The idea of implicit bias has been making its way into the business vernacular.  It involves the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner.  As you probably gathered from the definition, implicit bias is...

What We Find at the Intersection of Management and Psychology

by Warren Bobrow | May 26, 2016 | Pre-Employment Test Validation, Pre-Employment Testing, Talent Management, Test Validation

There’s a figurative store where the roads of Management and Psychology cross.  The shelves up front have the new and shiny theory or practice.  More likely than not, it will join the former new and shiny ideas in the dingy back of the store.  Some are just flat out...

Blind Hiring

by Warren Bobrow | Mar 24, 2016 | Legal Issues, Pre-Employment Test Validation, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Talent Management

I wrote a few weeks ago about Intel’s drive to diversify its workforce. Regular readers know that I write about bias occasionally. It’s good that the topic makes it to the mainstream media occasionally when not related to a lawsuit. The article talks about techniques...