HR Tests - Recruitment, assessment, and personnel selection

On June 19th the U.S. Supreme Court made several employment-related decisions . Of most interest for us is their decision in Meacham v. Kno...

What if instead of convincing applicants to apply based on your brand, your benefits, etc., you scared them? That appears to be the strateg...

Staffing.org just released its 2008 Recruiting Metrics and Performance Benchmark Report . From all accounts it's a good source of data,...

With memories of last week's IPMAAC conference fresh in my head (and what a great conference it was!), I thought I would mention that pr...

One of the biggest trends in personnel assessment is the movement toward on-line testing. Many organizations are experimenting with so call...

If you're an HR professional in the U.S., chances are you've been to the EEOC's webpage many times. You may even subscribe to ...

It's not often that we have a new federal statute dealing with employment discrimination. So I was a little surprised that the recent pa...

Last week I spoke with a rep over at VisualCV . She had been nice enough to put together an employer site for me, so we chatted about the s...

Turnover can be caused by many things. Inadequate supervision/ leadership. Too much work. Not enough work. Insufficient career growth opport...

I consider this blog to be part of a fairly small family (with a few notable exceptions, e.g., Selection Matters ) in that I focus on trying...

How good is your organization at accommodating individuals with disabilities when test-time rolls around? A recent article in Diversity Exec...

Here are a couple of new blogs to head over and check out: HR Recruiting Alert ; here are a few recent articles: Recruitment strategies for ...

One of the most famous axioms in social psychology is what's sometimes called " Lewin's equation " (after the famous psych...

I swear I've had a SME meeting like this one before. Happy Friday!

The May '08 issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology is out with lots of great content. Unfortunately only one is directly related to...

The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), bless its heart, is getting into the 21st century. In their April newslette...

The U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) has a new study out called In Search of Highly Skilled Workers . Like all MSPB studies, it...

Did you know that by reading this blog post you've been put into a category? Yep, at the very least you're a "spectator." ...

SIOP (the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology) has a new journal. It's called " Industrial and Organizational Ps...

Let's welcome a new blog in town. The new entrant is a corporate blog from Criteria , an employment testing firm based in LA. They star...