HR Tests - Recruitment, assessment, and personnel selection

Good reading for this October 31, 2007--enough to frighten us into paying renewed attention to our recruiting and assessment: Testing witho...

The October 2007 issue of the Assessment Council News is out with two great articles: First, Dr. Mike Aamodt tackles the issue of validity...

You legal buffs out there know that under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (as amended in 1991) there exists a "burden shifti...

When it comes to finding talented individuals, how far and wide do you look? Are you as creative as you could be? In a recent article James...

I'm guessing I'm not the only one that has been using web surveys more and more (I'm a big fan of SurveyMonkey ), and we'll ...

A new report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ( SAMHSA ; ...

The September 2007 Journal of Applied Psychology is out and it's got some research we need to look at... First, Hogan, Barrett, and Hog...

When it comes to things that supervisors (and, frankly, HR) don't look forward to, reference checking probably ranks in the top 5. Check...

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management ( OPM ) continues to innovate in the area of web-based assessment offerings with the introduction of...

Good reading for October 1, 2007 The new affirmative action (about schools, but lessons for employers) 2007 ILG National Conference Highligh...

The Autumn 2007 issue of Personnel Psychology is out with plenty for us to sink our teeth into, particularly for you personality testing fa...

A common question I hear from supervisors and HR professionals is: " Am I personally liable for employment discrimination when I make a...

The September, 2007 issue of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology is out and has several articles worth taking a look ...

I'll be taking a brief hiatus from blogging as I move from the Pacific Northwest to California. There's plenty more blogging to com...

This just in from the Level Playing Field Institute: a new study , sponsored by Korn/Ferry, that finds that corporate unfairness, in the for...

I've posted before ( here and here ) about how Google and other companies are literally using boardgames as part of their applicant scr...

In a display of " See? It's not just the EEOC you need to worry about ", the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal ...

Of course they exist. If you don't know one, you do now. Mark Toth is the Chief Legal Officer at Manpower and he's just started a b...

Have you heard about the National Work Readiness Credential ? It's a 3-hour pass-or-fail assessment delivered over the web that is desig...

Good reading for August 24, 2007: OFCCP issues final regulations implementing Jobs for Veterans Act of 2002 (job banks for postings listed ...