Validation can get squirrelly fast. Without first conducting a legitimate job analysis and choosing a legitimate hiring test, there is no need to go any … Read more
Uncovering Test Secrets, Part 1
This might seem like a no-brainer, but many tests used for selection/promotion have no validity. In lay terms, the scores predict absolutely nothing! Not … Read more
Why HR Should Be More Like Jim Joyce
Who is Jim Joyce? He’s the veteran Major League Baseball umpire whose errant call cost a Detroit Tiger’s pitcher a perfect game. For baseball … Read more
What HR Can Learn From American Idol
I’m not a big fan of American Idol, but like a lot of people, I get sucked into the competitive aspects of taking a group of talented people and publicly … Read more
Play Nice
Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. –Annie Lennox I recently finished reading the book The Power … Read more
Hiring: What You Don’t Know Hurts!
When I was a kid, I watched adults get their teeth pulled and replaced by dentures. My kid-brain thought it was normal. When I grew up, my adult brain … Read more
Unpaid Internships: The Cautious Approach
In today’s get-it-fast, get-it-now society, we hear about things before we have an opportunity to read about them or see them for ourselves. As an … Read more
Let Cooler Heads Prevail: Arizona’s Immigration Law
In recent weeks there has been a lot of news about SB 1070 — The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act — enacted by Arizona. … Read more
More Net than Work
A lot of employers that have started using social media are doing so without fully understanding the opportunities and challenges associated with it. The … Read more
True Cost of Ownership: Contingent vs. Retained
Search is expensive, exponentially so relative to the level of talent that you are seeking. A failed search is expensive; even more exponential is that … Read more