HR Tests - Recruitment, assessment, and personnel selection

Job applicants aren't stupid. They know you're looking for certain keywords when you review their resume or application. And simpl...

Video, whether for resumes or jobs, is getting more and more and more play these days. As more and more video sites popped up, i...

Microsoft has been pushing its Live Search engine recently, including an amusing ad I saw in today's paper not-so-subtly referring t...

Talk to me long enough about personnel assessment and selection and one of the things I'm bound to say is that we, as a profession, don...

While anti-discrimination laws in the U.S. are visible and enforced often at significant cost to employers, in Mexico there have been exampl...

Rocket-Hire conducts an annual survey on the usage of web-based screening and assessment tools. We get a preview of this year's re...

An article on Inc.com describes 10 tests (including cost from select vendors) that are, in their words, "extensively validated, hig...

Thanks to Google Co-op there's a new addition to this page. It's called Selection Search and it's located on the right nav...

Like height or attractiveness, weight is one of the least-talked-about-but-most-common-judgments that get made about people that impact hiri...

Many presentations from the 2006 IPMA training conference are now available . Some of the highlights: - Recruitment: Filling hard-to-fi...

Okay, so it's taken me so long to post about the new issue of TIP that you could legitimately claim that it isn't "new...

For anyone that's wanted to go to IPMAAC conference but doesn't have the dough, they just implemented a new policy (see section ...

Not content to rule search, Google is conducting an applied class in smart HR by adjusting their hiring practices to focus more on job-r...

Here's a case you may not be familiar with. Target is being sued in federal court for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (...

Recently, Todd Rogers over at ERE wrote an article about the "cost" of assessment. The article isn't about ROI formulas o...

Comes now Blue Chip Expert , which according to Business 2.0 , is "A MySpace for Job Seekers." The site focuses on free age...

The October 7 issue of The Economist included a special report on "the battle for brainpower." You can read the front article ...

I was listening to a piece on NPR this afternoon that got me thinking about best practices in personnel selection and assessment. The ne...

Everyone has ideas for things they'd like to do one day and they just haven't gotten around to it yet. For me, one area I'm int...

Been to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)'s website recently? They have a great resource called the Hiring Toolkit that is a...