by Ira Wolfe | Aug 26, 2011 | HR Articles
No matter how much I try, I’m amazed each August when the Beloit College Mindset List is released. And this year’s list for the Class of 2015 is no exception. The list has been compiled since 1998 by Beloit’s former Public Affairs Director Ron Nief and Keefer...
by Ira Wolfe | Aug 25, 2011 | Employment Testing
Despite persistent slow hiring by businesses, spending on employment testing rose about 20 percent in the US last year to between 1.5 and $2 billion annually (Workforce.com). One reason for the increase might be that organizations using assessments report on average...
by Ira Wolfe | Aug 23, 2011 | Employment Testing
If your company is like most businesses, your operations, marketing, and sales efforts could be improved. That is where personality and other pre-employment testing come in. Improvement and high performance requires employees who can increase revenues, reduce costs,...
by Ira Wolfe | Aug 20, 2011 | Employee Performance Management
Big corporations have been talking seriously about employee competencies for at least the past two decades. Today even the smallest of small businesses have joined the discussion. Many organizations are dedicating time and resources into identifying essential...
by Ira Wolfe | Aug 19, 2011 | Hiring Process
Predicting superior performance is all about having enough of the right information when you make people decisions. Having the right information allows you to achieve job fit. Simply put, job fit exists when the skills and attitudes of the employee are in line with...
