Dr. Wendell Williams

R. Wendell Williams, Ph.D., is Managing Director of ScientificSelection.com. He specializes in helping organizations develop job competencies, measure applicant skills, implement performance management programs, develop performance appraisal systems, make promotion decisions, and develop Web-enabled hiring sites. Contact him at rww@scientificselection.com .

Best-in-Class Hiring: The Tech Professional

Dr. Wendell WilliamsJanuary 25, 2002

In Part 1, we discussed how to simplify hiring systems and use a few good hiring tools to reduce hiring mistakes. Although they have been around for … Read more

Best-In-Class Hiring, Part 1

Dr. Wendell WilliamsJanuary 18, 2002

Hire the best! Put people with the right skills in the right jobs! Reduce turnover by increasing job satisfaction! Reduce hiring mistakes using one best … Read more

Staffing Survival Guide(lines)

Dr. Wendell WilliamsJanuary 10, 2002

An ERE article last month by Michael McNeil (OFCCP: Friend or Foe?) stimulated a few thoughts about “applicants” and OFCCP audits. Michael … Read more

Six-Sigma Hiring

Dr. Wendell WilliamsDecember 5, 2001

I keep hearing about Six-Sigma hiring. I guess it was only time before HR started using quality improvement tools. I just hope they are ready to discover … Read more

The Incredible Cost of a Bad Hire: Part Two

Dr. Wendell WilliamsOctober 25, 2001

In Part One, I outlined how an “average” standard deviation in worker productivity can amount to huge dollar costs for a company. In many cases … Read more

The Incredible Cost of a Bad Hire

Dr. Wendell WilliamsOctober 11, 2001

Recruiting costs are like the weather… everyone talks about them, but no one does anything. Well, you can do something about recruiting costs ? if … Read more

Do You Have a Test?

Dr. Wendell WilliamsSeptember 27, 2001

I don’t know where people get the idea that pencil and paper tests are the universal solution to all hiring problems. Tests are good for some things, … Read more

The Lost Letters of Charles Darwin: Evolution and Web-Assisted Recruiting

Dr. Wendell WilliamsAugust 30, 2001

AP Newswire: Historian’s searching through dusty trunks in an English row house in downtown London recently found a packet of notes carefully sealed … Read more

Another, Less Pleasant Use of Hiring Technology: Downsizing

Dr. Wendell WilliamsAugust 15, 2001

Organizations are sometimes faced with the unavoidable economic decision to downsize operations. Nothing shakes the confidence of employees like a … Read more

Parakeet Tuxedos: Validity Revisited

Dr. Wendell WilliamsAugust 2, 2001

I often hear people asking, “Is this test validated?” It is a reasonable question that everyone using a test for selection needs to be asking. … Read more