HR Tests - Recruitment, assessment, and personnel selection

Without further ado, a few research updates: January 2017 Psychological Bulletin : - Why is there better gender balance in some STEM fie...

Several research updates this time, including fascinating studies of how computers can assist with interview training, and how a brief writi...

Unless your organization is primarily composed of robots (which is becoming more of a reality for some *), arguably the most important thing...

Several recent journals to pore through: July 2016 issue of Journal of Organizational Behavior July 2016 issue of Journal Applied Psycho...

This year, IPAC's annual conference is here in my home of Sacramento from July 31 - August 3.  I'll be there Monday afternoon for a...

Those of us that write, teach, and consult on personnel assessment usually paint the process as a very rational process broken into sever...

A persistent challenge in interviews is that certain interviewers tend to be lenient (i.e., score candidates highly) while others are con...

The interview is such a commonly used hiring assessment that it's hardly worth mentioning (although there is always room for improvemen...

Competencies, talent, gamification... there's no doubt about it, we like us some buzzwords.  Like bright shiny objects, these ideas ent...

A few new journal issues have come out lately: Summer 2016 Personnel Psychology , including: Transparency of Assessment Centers: Low Cri...

Two new journal issues to make you aware of: International Journal of Selection and Assessment - March 2016 Unintended Consequences of T...

I have a lot of games on my iPad.  They go on for several pages as you swipe left. Some are quite good, but most are just good enough that...

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...