Here are 5 key reasons for companies to use assessments in both hiring and other HR management functions. They are extracted from a recent article in Workforce Management written by Ashley Shadday entitled “Assessments 101”.

SCREENING OR JOB FIT: “Assessment tests, when used as part of the hiring process, provide employers with an effective way of [...]

A recent article posted on ERE,net by Lou Adler reinforced the thesis advanced by Lynne Wallace in the September 2009 Prevue newsletter entitled The Hiring Process – What is the Target?
Lynne emphasized the importance of not hiring those people who are the poorer performers.
The Adler article notes that:
“Assuming the duds and the stars represent 10% [...]

FromCanadian HR Reporter
1/11/2010
By Peter Straszynski
This article should be of interest to anyone who has to draw employment agreements. It has some very good suggestions on how to deal with some situations that can become very difficult and expensive for employers.
Managing disability in the workplace remains one of the most challenging areas of employment [...]

With the hundreds or even thousands of messages that land in people’s in-boxes every week, many e-mails get passed over. Writing a message that actually gets read can be a challenge.
The best way to get e-mails skipped over: Bury the important info. Key points should go where recipients are most likely to see them — [...]

How many of us have set out upon a hiring process with the goal of hiring only top performers just like Bob?  After all, Bob is the guy we wish we could clone.
With great care we create a Prevue benchmark that factors in all of the abilities, personality traits et al that we saw in [...]

The following article written by Kevin Wheeler was recently published on ERE.net. It struck a real chord with me because I’ve often questioned whether we really understand what work/life balance means and what is it’s objective. I think we all know that we shouldn’t be developing solutions before we understand both the problem and the objective. [...]

Disparate or adverse impact in employment selection decisions refers to the different treatment of employees or applicants based on their race, color, religion, gender, national origin or handicap.

We were recently asked by a new Prevue customer to respond to an article published some time ago in the HR Reporter. The customer wanted to know how Prevue Assessments measured up to the key criteria for selecting an assessment product that were outlined in the article. Following are excerpts from the article with our [...]

This is the second of two articles based on the study of the use of “Assessments in Talent Management” published by the Aberdeen Group in March 2009. In the first article we examined how and why Best in Class organizations (“Best Organizations”) are increasing their use of assessments in all aspects of human resource management. This second article reviews the process followed by Best Organizations in developing and implementing a Best in Class assessment system.

In 1978, four government agencies (EEOC, Department Of Labor, Department of Justice, and the Civil Service Commission) adopted a set of guidelines known as the Uniform Guidelines for Employee Selection Procedures, which provided information on what constitutes a discriminatory test surrounding employment testing, as well as all personnel decisions.  They focused on when a personnel [...]