by Ira Wolfe | Apr 23, 2013 | Employment Testing
Can your personality affect how you prepare for retirement? Personality traits are often linked to job performance and used in identifying candidates who are the best fit for a job. But a recent research papers seems to have correlated specific personality traits to...
by Ira Wolfe | Apr 16, 2013 | Employment Testing, Leadership
How Leadership Assessment Tests Can Predict the Rise and Fall of a High-Potential Superstar Case Study Bob Smith (name changed) had been the darling of senior management and board of directors (BOD). Bob is the CFO of an up and coming professional services firm. The...
by Ira Wolfe | Mar 19, 2013 | Employment Testing
Do a quick search through job classified ads and it is very likely that accuracy (often veiled as “detail orientation”) will show up as a required skill or trait in at least half of the jobs. The subsequent question then becomes: how can hiring managers...
by Ira Wolfe | Feb 5, 2013 | Employment Testing, Hiring Process
How do you hire a top performer? Just click a few keys and hundreds if not thousands of tips, techniques, and theories pop up in a quick search of the Internet. But when all is said and done, you can boil the most effective systems down to one of two methodologies:...
by Ira Wolfe | Jan 16, 2013 | Employment Testing, Leadership
I am called frequently by managers about building effective teams. When I ask what is prompting this investment in “team building,” the manager usually responds with something like “we’d like to improve communication and work together...
by Ira Wolfe | Dec 17, 2012 | DISC, Employment Testing
Twas the week before Christmas and all through the stores, everyone is scurrying and rushing toward the doors. The sales staff is exhausted, the shoppers are spent, The businesses are hoping, they’ll make enough to pay the rent. But regardless of the holiday,...
