HR Tests - Recruitment, assessment, and personnel selection

It's always a pleasure welcoming other blogs to the fold. Particularly when they're written by intelligent people with a perspective...

A new study out by the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that while 55% of all Americans have a broadband connection at home, u...

There are strong opinions about the upcoming "retirement wave" of the Baby Boom generation--some think employers are in big troubl...

One of the most popular pieces of folk wisdom is that some people are better at detecting liars than others. When it comes to selection, som...

The General Accounting Office ( GAO ) recently released a report critical of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's ( EEOC ...

Not exactly breaking news, but for any of you out there that didn't already know, NEOGOV , a significant player in the public sector ATS...

In the latest issue of Personnel Review, Dr. Filip Lievens and colleagues provide an empirical review of situational judgment tests (SJTs) ...

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...