HR Tests - Recruitment, assessment, and personnel selection

So this month the big buzz is over a research article in JASP on using Facebook profiles to judge personality and predict job performance ....

Okay, we've got a lot of ground to cover so let's jump right in... - For you stats fans: Estimating ordinal reliability for Likert-t...

Welcome to the last HR Tests research update of 2011! This year has been filled with research developments, building on previous thinking a...

All that time your organization spends on leadership assessment? Throw it out. New research indicates that CEOs with fat faces perform bet...

Lately I've been thinking about hires I've seen that went bad. What seemed like the right selection at the time turned into a huge ...

Okay, I've got a lot of ground to cover this time, so buckle up... Let's start with the December issue of IJSA : - Looks like how mu...

Prepare for a little blasphemy. Over the last few months my job--and focus--has changed dramatically. Historically I've been a "...

It's not that I don't appreciate your desire to be different, but I worry about your chances of getting a job. Why? Because if you ...

Two things this time: we've got a lot of research to go over, and then a bit of a celebration! First the research. The September issue ...

While reading news about a court decision recently I was struck again by how the U.S. Court system continues to make a false and largely ...

Okay, past time for a research update. - The September issue of IJSA has several articles on job discrimination, including pieces by And...

Exam workload is down at my job. Not "pack up your bags and go home" down, but we're running significantly fewer exams than ...

Okay, it's past time for a research update. Let's see what's going on out there: - Looking to get a better salary offer? Resea...

No doubt by now you've heard about Google+ ("Google plus"). It's essentially Google's latest stab at trying to toppl...

Should you hire more women for the teams within your organization? You might think so after reading an article in the June 2011 Harvard Bus...

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...