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Selection

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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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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NEO – HR Powerhouse

April 24, 2009

The Northeast Ohio area has many strengths. Unfortunately, all too often, we fail to emphasize our strengths. Even more tragically, many people inside of Northeast Ohio are unware of the tremendous talent pool the region has to offer.
This is especially true in the area of human resource consulting, especially as it relates to employment testing and [...]

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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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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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Answer to Budget Cuts – Sell Space on Tests

March 25, 2009

This is a genius idea. As this article describes, a teacher started selling advertising space on his tests. To think of all the money I could have made.
Not only that, this is a great idea for an HR Department. Of course, I can see an employment lawyer asking to place an ad at the bottom [...]

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Age Bias Lawsuits Increase

March 12, 2009

Not unexpectedly, given recent layoffs and reductions in force by companies, age bias discrimination lawsuits and filings are on the increase. An excellent summary of the data appeared in the Wall Street Journal (thanks to Ken Shultz for pointing this out). Although people are entitled to exercise their rights, and should be encouraged to do [...]

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Error on Educational Test

February 16, 2009

Everyone’s nightmare. An error that gets through on a test. I have to admit, I am terrible at checking for errors, so I have to rely on those more gifted.

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