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360 Degree Evaluation: This is Not a Test (Part 1)
Inquiries about online performance reviews has jumped over the last few months. That’s a good sign that companies are recognizing the need to provide employees feedback more frequently. As part of these conversations I've seen a significant increase in requests for...
3 Benefits of Using Sales Aptitude Tests
Many businesses use resumes and interviews to gauge sales potential, but they're more likely to find the right person when they give candidates sales aptitude tests. Many managers feel it takes a certain type of person to succeed in sales. Others believe the right...
Benefits of Using Leadership Skill Tests
Good leadership takes a combination of strong interpersonal, managerial, organizational, and decision-making skills, among others. You can't see them just by looking at someone, but effective leadership skill tests make them easier to find. If you're not sure your...
Benefits of Using Customer Service Skill Tests
Ask anyone you know if they have recently experienced bad customer service, and you’ll be regaled with tales of shop clerks too involved in personal conversations to notice a customer needs assistance, or of call-center employees so focused on selling upgrades that...
3 Benefits of Using Office Skill Tests
Are you asking job candidates to complete and pass office skill tests? If not, you might be shortchanging those candidates - and your company.A business doesn't make its name on its superior level of office skills, but those office skills are the oil that keeps the...
Leadership Core Competencies Must Be Simple and Realistic
Company leaders need to carefully determine the key leadership competencies that define the business they own and manage. These key core competencies should become the means by which the organization achieves its goals or carries out its mission. It is not enough...
8 Steps Employers Must Take To Recruit Qualified Workers Quickly
More companies are hiring. Job creation is improving. The competition for qualified and qualify workers is heating up. Here are 8 steps employers must take to attract enough qualified applicants to fill open positions quickly. Create a company career page to recruit...
Colonoscopies and Pre-Employment Tests Have a Lot in Common
What I learned recently is that colonoscopies and pre-employment testing have a lot in common. First of all, managers and employees dislike, maybe even detest, the seemingly invasive nature of both evaluations. Second, you can’t fake out the results – what physicians...
7 Tips You Should Follow Before Selecting A Pre-Employment Test
If you don’t assess candidates before you hire and evaluate employees before you promote, here are seven tips to follow before selecting a pre-employment test: Articulate what is important to find out: Is it good cultural fit? Work attitude and integrity? Potential...
Wonderlic Fumbles Ability to Pick NFL Stars
If there ever was a brand name like Kleenex, Dry Ice, Band-Aid, and Scotch Tape in pre-employment testing circles, the Wonderlic (test) might get the honor. Thanks to the National Football League using this pre-hire assessment to seek out the next Joe Montana, Peyton...
