Search
-
Recent Posts
-
Subscribe
Archives
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- June 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- January 2011
- November 2010
- September 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- January 2010
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
Browse by Tags
adverseimpact alaska Aptitude Aptitude Tests aptitudetests BigFive brain plasticity cognitive cognitiveaptitude cognitive aptitude cognitivepatitude CPI Criteria customerservicetests employee testing employment employmentpersonalitytests employmenttests employment tests extraversion HireSelect hiring HiringActivityIndex introversion jobinterviews jobmarket MalcolmGladwell MBTI memory Microsoftskillstests Myers-Briggs NFL Obama personalitytests pre-employment testing reliability salestests SAT skillstests sway testretestreliability unemploymentrate unemploymentrates USOpen Wonderlic
Author Archives: Josh Millet
Twice As Many Job Seekers For Every Job
A recent New York Times article highlighted the challenges faced by a small business owner in devoting sufficient time to hiring new staff. The challenges are particularly acute in the current economic climate, it was argued, because the number of … Continue reading
A Misplaced Faith
A blog post on Huffington Post caught our eye last week (Employment Testing for the Priesthood Can Prevent Child Abuse). The title concisely states the thesis, but aside from a few sensible sounding comments about pre-employment testing from a headhunter, … Continue reading
Tagged pre-employment testing
5 Comments
Criteria’s Partnership with Harvard, NASA
As some of you may be aware, Criteria’s pre-employment testing software includes some assessments that were originally created by a research partnership between NASA and Harvard. There’s an article in NASA’s annual Spinoff publication about the collaboration that produced the … Continue reading
Tagged Harvard, MRAB, NASA
Leave a comment
Gladwell Revisited
We’re going to file this one in the “we told you so” file! The other day the famous Harvard psychologist Stephen Pinker reviewed Malcolm Galdwell’s newest essay collection in the New York Times, and it wasn’t pretty. Pinker savages Gladwell, … Continue reading
Tagged MalcolmGladwell
Leave a comment
How does this Rorschach debate make you feel?
Yesterday’s NY Times reports on a dispute concerning the posting of the Rorschach Inkblots on Wikipedia. With all 10 inkblots posted, along with common answers, many psychologists argue the test has been compromised. Free information advocates argue that the test … Continue reading
Microsoft Skills Tests Now Live on HireSelect
Well, we’ve now put the Microsoft skills tests live on HireSelect (read about it in the press release.) The integration of these tests took longer than we expected, and right now they are in beta release, because we are still … Continue reading
Tagged skillstests
2 Comments
What is a Sales Aptitude Test?
In my last post I described our customer service test and the kinds of personality traits that it measures. People who have high levels of cooperativeness, patience, and personal diplomacy tend to be well suited for customer service roles. The … Continue reading
What does a Customer Service Test Measure?
In a series of blog posts last year I discussed the evolution of employment personality testing, from the Myers-Briggs to the “Big Five” to more job-specific personality inventories. The last of these continue to grow in popularity, especially in the … Continue reading