HR Tests - Recruitment, assessment, and personnel selection

Emotional intelligence (EI) continues to be a hot topic in the I/O and HR communities. Some are big fans, some (including me) are more skep...

Time for a big research update. There's a lot to catch up on, so I'll go quickly and give you just enough for you to follow up on i...

I've worked with people that seemed overqualified--you probably have too. They brought a bazooka when all that was needed was a squirt...

Ingredients One large, diverse candidate pool One cognitive ability OR physical agility test One protective services job (police or fire if ...

And now for something completely different. A man with a marketing video. It's getting toward the end of May, so if you haven't mad...

The June 2011 issue of the International Journal of Selection and Assessment (IJSA, volume 19, issue 2) is out. And it's chalk full of...

When you hire someone for your Accounting department, what do you look for? Accounting experience, undoubtedly, but presumably you look for...

Brainshark and Greenshot. Sounds like a kids' cartoon about a pair of superheroes. But no, this post is all about a pair of simple tool...

A few research articles for us... First up, several articles from the latest issue of Human Performance : Lee & Dalal demonstrate in a ...

You might think so if you just glanced at a recent study by Dreher, et al. in the Journal of Management . But what if we read the study...a...

I've got a hodgepodge of things for you this time, some research mixed with some other interesting things. First, the March issue of Jou...

" A person-centric work psychology will look at the world through the eyes of the worker. It will take work in the raw, all the sigh...

The March 2011 issue of Industrial and Organizational Psychology contains two excellent focal articles. One, which I plan on writing about...

Time to catch up on the research: First, Blickle, et al. show that political skill ( "the capacity to understand others in working li...

The concept of a website that matches applicant skills to specific recruitments is...shall we say...not new. What is new is a website that ...

It's journal season--this time let's take a look at the Spring 2011 issue of Personnel Psychology : First up, Derue, et al. with an ...

Personnel psychologists often make a distinction between factors that indicate a person can do a particular task and those that indicate th...

The March 2011 issue of the International Journal of Selection and Assessment is out, and it's a doozie. Check it out: - Beaty, et al....

Here are some research articles from the last couple months: Grand et al.'s study showed that adding a job-relevant context to test item...

Remember when tests were fun? Neither do I. Tests and assessments have a long history of being about as popular as the dentist. Starting i...