by Ira Wolfe | Mar 27, 2015 | Employment Testing, Hiring Process
“Personality tests are useless at predicting future job performance,” if you believe self-confessed personality test hater Bob Corlett. Mr Corlett by the way is founding member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the HR Examiner. He feels personality testing is “just...
by Ira Wolfe | Jan 28, 2015 | Employment Testing, Hiring Process
SPS president Ira S Wolfe was interviewed for this February 2015 article about personality tests for hiring. He discusses the increasing popularity of employee assessment tests in the...
by Ira Wolfe | Feb 16, 2014 | Employment Testing
She interviewed well. Had a hot track record. Now she doesn’t perform. What happened? What happens next? You can lead some people to sales training, but you can’t force them to sell. It is unlikely that you would purchase a new machine that you knew...
by Ira Wolfe | Feb 16, 2014 | Employment Testing, Leadership
By all rights we should have this down by now. From consultancies and B-schools has come an outpouring of literature on leadership and leadership development, taking different approaches to the problem of turning promising employees into executives capable of taking...
by Ira Wolfe | May 22, 2013 | Employment Testing, Leadership
Passion, confidence, ambition, creativity, focus – these are all highly desirable attributes of any successful leader. But like almost every quality that people possess, when overextended our strengths can become weaknesses. And with just a glance through Wall...