HR Tests - Recruitment, assessment, and personnel selection

So I quasi-randomly completed the 'personality quiz' over at the LA Times page. I did it just for fun, but it actually did somet...

Many of us plan or administer promotional tests on a daily basis. It's a normal way for the organization to figure out if people are re...

The April 2010 issue of The Industrial/Organizational Psychologist (TIP) is now available here . Let's check out some of what's ins...

Here are three blogs you have missed: Shaker Consulting Group (makers of the Virtual Job Tryout) has a new blog out written by my friend Jo...

A while back I posted about a creative use of technology that Vestas was using for onboarding. At the time I wrote about the potential I ...

I follow several journals, several of which aren't specifically devoted to recruitment and selection. But if you believe, as I do, that...

The March 2010 issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology is out. Let's take a look: Do women make better leaders? According to a ...

Last week I was fortunate to attend and present at the 2010 Personnel Testing Council of Northern California (PTC-NC) conference. Several o...

Late last year I did a webinar through BCGi titled "Hiring right: How to hire the right person for the job" and the slides are no...

The Spring 2010 (v.63, #1) issue of Personnel Psychology is out. Let's look at the highlights: First out of the gate, a great meta-ana...

What are you doing July 18-21? I assume if you enjoy good weather, good company, and--most importantly--great information on state-of-the-a...

A thought-provoking collection of essays and ideas; but it won't solve all our problems. The value of a book lies as much with the reade...

Went to a pretty darn good webinar yesterday put on by HCI and featuring Ken Lahti ( PreVisor ) and Charles Handler ( Rocket-Hire ). The ...

I'm sure some of you are avid readers of ERE (Electronic Recruiters Exchange), but for those of you that aren't (and don't rece...

The March 2010 issue of the International Journal of Selection and Assessment (IJSA) is out, and the research covers a wide variety of recr...

The U.S. Government has revamped its jobs page, www.usajobs.gov , and in the process shown everyone else how its done. Take a look at their...

Part 2 of 2 Last time I discussed five important lessons we can take away from recent rulings in the Vulcan v. City of New York case. In th...

Part 1 of 2 New York City, like the cities of New Haven and Chicago , has a long history of employment discrimination litigation related to...

The January 2010 issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology is out, and there are some good articles to take a look at. It just may be mor...

Recruiters have a variety of measures of their success, often including process outcomes (time-to-fill, number of requisitions filled, etc.)...