July 3, 2017

Is your applicant experience driving away the best talent?   Having recently completed a job search myself, this article in Forbes caught my eye:  Seven Outrageous Things Some Employers Make Job Applicants Do. While not everything I encountered as an applicant was outrageous, I can clearly relate to many of the key points in the...

June 2, 2017

For the biggest gains in employee performance and retention, organizations are increasingly turning to high-tech pre-employment testing tools. Job simulations top the list in terms of predictive accuracy, effectiveness, and bottom-line results. A job simulation assessment process immerses applicants in real-world situations and then assesses how they respond to challenging issues that arise on a...

December 28, 2016

I began my career back in 1988. I was fresh out of grad school with a degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. I wasn’t sure exactly what I wanted to do, and my memories of pondering the options are a bit fuzzy. But one thing I remember as clear as day was the thoroughness of the selection...