Blog Detail
HR Tests
http://hrtests.blogspot.com
A blog devoted to news and best practices in employment recruiting and personnel selection.
- Added on: Mar 16th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: BryanB
- Listed in: Career & Jobs Business
- Tags: human resources employment testing recruiting personnel assessment
Recent Posts
Setting cutoff scores on personality tests
What's the best way to set a cutoff score for a personality test, knowing that some candidates inflate their score? It all depends on your goal. Are you trying to maximize validity or minimize the impact of inflation?According to a research study by...
Want better prediction? Gather more data.
That's the bottom line from a study in the November 2009 issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology.Oh & Berry looked at how adding personality ratings from peers and supervisors added incremental validity to self-ratings using a five-factor mode...
HR: C-level or AAA?
Just when we thought we were C-level, Dogbert reminds us how old-school CEOs view HR.p.s. I think I like CPO better than HCO....
Explain away
Of all the low-hanging fruit in recruitment and selection, perhaps none are easier to implement than explaining your process. It's shocking how few selection processes are fully (and coherently) explained, not just in terms of getting from point A t...
What employers can learn from Twilight
Not since Harry Potter have I seen such obsessed fans. The buzz started several months ago in anticipation. And November 20th is almost here.Don't know what happens on November 20th? Ask your daughter. Or granddaughter. Or, heck, pretty much any w...
New Job Simulations Report
The U.S. Merit Systems Protections Board (MSPB) just released a great, easily digestible, report on job simulations.The report includes several things, such as:- Job simulations defined and advantages/disadvantages- Types of job simulations (SJT, wor...
