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Pre-employment testing: pros and cons

Workable

It’s been more than 50 years since companies started using pre-employment testing. Unstructured interviews , resume screenings and pre-interview calls are ineffective predictors of job performance. Other assessment methods like screening calls and unstructured interviews can be unfair.

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Book Review: Applied Psychology in Talent Management (8th ed.) by Wayne Cascio and Herman Aguinis

Workplace Psychology

At the beginning of the book, the authors provided this confusing definition of adverse impact: “Adverse impact (unintentional) discrimination occurs when identical standards or procedures are applied to everyone, even though they lead to a substantial difference in employment outcomes (e.g., The second topic is recruitment.

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5 Examples of Racial Bias in Hiring

Ongig

They include racial bias in job descriptions, candidate screening, interviewing, job offers, and background checks. For example, take this Software Development Engineer job description we found (this week) on Glassdoor for example. It’s a type of software architecture. Racial Bias in Candidate Screening.

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How HR Can Tackle Diversity Using the Rooney Rule

Visier

In August 2015, the need for more workforce diversity was spotlighted in a big way when President Obama issued a call to action to technology companies, encouraging them to hire more women and minorities by implementing the Rooney Rule. Who’s getting interviewed? Metric to watch: Diversity of interviewed candidates.

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Vetting Dev Candidates for Remote Work from Eastern Europe

Hppy

McKinsey called Eastern Europe the next outsourcing hotspot back in 2006. Countries like Ukraine and Poland produce fresh IT graduates every year, who are ripe for employment. As a result, software development has become one of the top sectors in the Eastern European economy. Screen Candidates with Remote Pair Programming.

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Retaining Millennials: Solve This Problem and Get an HR Job Anywhere

Reflektive

People who graduated college between 2006 and 2010 averaged nearly three jobs the first five years of their career, which is more than double the average of the prior generation. According to a Gallup study , millennials put little importance on whether a company is a fun place to work or has an informal environment.

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How Companies Identify Talent with Janine Nicole Dennis & Kage Spatz

Thrive Global

Her career spans over 15 years in HR, Talent Acquisition, and Talent Management in pharmaceuticals, K-12 education, technology, private equity, healthcare, performing arts, and staffing, just to name a few sectors she has worked in. This was in 2006. Synergy within our value systems. Thank you for doing this! I seek diversity.