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Academic Time to Hire

May 19, 2009

When I start thinking about the issue of time-to-hire, I contrast two very different approaches. The two approaches are the 1) corporate – we need someone yesterday approach and the 2) academic – it takes us a year to fill a position approach.
So, I thought I would reflect on the academic approach. The very people [...]

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Wellness Programs at the Cleveland Metroparks

May 16, 2009

A reminder on an upcoming presentation from the local IPMA-HR group. David Duane, Associate Director of Human Resources at Cleveland Metroparks, will present “Cleveland Metroparks Wellness Initiative.” Cleveland Metroparks recently won the “Wellness at Work” Award from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The meeting will be Tuesday, May 19th at 11:30am at the Cleveland [...]

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Upcoming Training and Experience Seminar

May 12, 2009

As part of the 73nd Annual IPMA-HR Central Region Training Conference, being held in Cleveland in June, IPMA will put on a Training and Experience Seminar. This seminar will be held on Sunday, June 7, from 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. It explores how measures of training and experience can be used to assess the [...]

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MAPAC Conference in Harrisburg, PA

May 12, 2009

The Spring 2009 Mid-Atlantic Personnel Assessment Consortium (MAPAC) Conference is being held in Harrisburg, PA on May 13, 14 and 15. If you are in the neighborhood, there will be a number of great presentations, including a number dealing with legal issues. Further information is available on the MAPAC webpage.

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Can Compensation Drive Testing Results?

April 21, 2009

The following news item came via the IPAT listserv. It deals with the high failure rate on the recent New York Fire Department Promotional Exam.

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Credit Checks in Hiring – Potential Legislation in Ohio

April 16, 2009

The use of credit checks in the hiring process appears to be increasing. Credit checks serve two very different purposes.

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Court Ruling on Employment Testing in Cleveland

April 14, 2009

There was an interesting discussion on the IPAT listserve regarding the pros and cons of temporary (or probationary) hiring versus employment testing in the public sector. Nutshelling a lot of opinions, it seemed like a lot of practitioners and experts favored keeping both, feeling an emphasis on employment screening was needed. In that context, a [...]

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Tests as Public Records

April 9, 2009

Employment testing must jump through a large number of administrative and legal hoops. In Ohio at least, one of the more unique issues encountered in the public sector is that employment tests can be treated as public records. This leads to a number of challenges in terms of protecting the integrity and long term usefulness [...]

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Killing the Messenger – Criticism of Testing

April 2, 2009

In our society, there also seems to be a real distrust, perhaps even hatred, of testing. For me, the scary part is that as a result of the expansion of standardized testing in the schools, this distrust of testing is now being taught by teachers to their elementary school classes. Thus, from an early age, [...]

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Public Sector High Stakes Testing – Musings on the Competition

April 1, 2009

Although we regard public sector hiring in high stakes positions such as police as being based on “merit,” it is more of a competition. Because it is a competition, people get upset when they think someone else has an unfair advantage in that competition. 10,000 people may be competing for 10 positions and in such [...]

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