HR Tests - Recruitment, assessment, and personnel selection

Several posts ago I wrote about a large settlement that FedEx entered into. Part of the case involved a challenge to their promotional exa...

Many people use MySpace , Facebook , and other social networking sites to create personalized web pages that often include information we mi...

Good, if brief, interview with Dr. Ann Howard, Chief Scientist at DDI and well-known name in the field of I/O psychology. Her contributio...

In a previous post I talked about some of the products showcased in the program for the 2007 SIOP Conference . In this post I'd like t...

Yes, I said Spock . No, not as in Star Trek. I posted about Spock last year --they are a "people search" website that will allow ...

Ever wonder how much it costs an organization to defend itself from an employment discrimination lawsuit? Check out this graph from a rece...

Can job applicants fake personality tests? This topic is one of the hottest in assessment research these days (in fact, there's a whole...

Please note: This is an updated post that corrects an inaccurate fact I had posted, namely that the test in question was PSI's Basic Ski...

The Spring 2007 issue of Public Personnel Management is here ( IPMA-HR membership required for full access), and it's got some great s...

A little Friday fun for ya. Just finished a trip up and down the west coast on I-5, and happened upon the little town of Talent, Oregon . S...

Deborah Whetzel and George Wheaton's 1997 book, Applied measurement methods in industrial psychology was extremely dog-ear worthy, with...

I've said before that I think the "holy grail" of selection will be matching quality measures of candidate values, interests,...

Getting the SIOP Conference program in the mail is kind of like getting the toy catalog as a kid. At least for me it is. I look forward to ...

Registration is now open for the 31st annual IPMAAC Conference in St. Louis on June 10-13. Along with the annual SIOP conference, this is ...

Yesterday I posted about an assessment that Monster.com offers job seekers in order to help them understand their strengths, values, etc. ...

A friend of mine sent me a link to an "assessment" that Monster is using (through MyMonster) called JASPER --Job Assets and Stren...

Just plowed through a new book that I think will be immensely helpful for folks in any of the following categories: a) Don't understand...

I wrote an earlier post about a particularly good article in the most recent issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology . But what about ...

The U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board has released a new report entitled, " Accomplishing Our Mission: Results of the Merit Principl...

March journal madness ends(?) with the latest issu e of the Journal of Applied Psychology . I'll post separately about all the recruitm...