HR Tests - Recruitment, assessment, and personnel selection

On August 10 and 12, PTC-NC was privileged to have Dr. Patrick Sharpe from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) deliver a prese...

Why do organizations make bad hires?  Because they rely too much on supervisors to do the hiring. Imagine this scenario.  You take you...

I hope you like research, because there's a lot of it coming your way...and many are free as of this posting! Without further ado... ...

Many people have watched Amy Cuddy's riveting TED talk on how body language impacts thought processes.  Specifically, over 23.5 million...

Texas.  Georgia.  Washington.  Florida.  California. What do these states have in common?  They are some of the states that have underta...

Happy New Year!  As I've done in previous years, I present below the research articles I ran across in this area that I think were th...

Occasionally I post about things that are related to recruitment and assessment, but not focused exclusively on them.  This is one of those ...

Seriously?  Just yesterday I did my research update , ending with a note that the December 2014 issue of the International Journal of Select...

Okay, so it been a couple months, huh?  Well, what say we do a research update then. But before I dive in, I discovered something interest...

I can't believe it's been three months since a research update.  I was waiting until I got critical mass, and with the release of th...

Lately at my day job we've been working with a few customers on replacing their traditional "one-shot" job ads with contin...

Over the last two days I had the pleasure of attending the Western Region Intergovernmental Personnel Assessment Council's ( WRIPAC...

The idea of administering employment tests on mobile devices is not new.  But serious research into it is in its infancy.  This is to be e...

Selecting people based on physical appearance is as old as humankind.  Mates were selected based in part on physical features.  People we...