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At the start of the school year, my third-grade daughter came home with a practice math test. The test is given at the end of each month and contains a range of math problems. It starts with very simple addition and ends with more elaborate addition ...

Employee survey programs can provide organizations with the unique and invaluable opportunity to link human capital metrics to survey results. This linkage may simply provide specific information about where one works in the organization and who they...

If you are the only one she has, make sure you are one in a million. –Irish Folk Song Imagine, while at a charity event, you had an opportunity to buy one of 15 lottery tickets that were to be sold to 15 different individuals for $20 a ticket....

The use of biodata, information about one’s life experiences, as a means of predicting future performance in corporate settings has been prevalent for over a hundred years. Using knowledge of someone’s past behavior to predict their likel...

Buy low, sell high is sage advice. However, what is low and what is high? Certainly if you look at the cost of buying shares of a company, they are lower now than they were a few months ago, but are they as low as they are going to go? What is the re...

"There is a shortage of good technology talent. It is impossible to find engineers.” If you are in staffing, you have more than likely noticed the common themes in current industry publications. Are these themes fact or fiction? The answe...

Once the decision has been made to conduct an employee survey, it is important for the organization to begin building momentum. A well-done employee survey will rely on participation from the members of the organization on its design, administration,...

Competencies have been defined in a variety of different ways by the scientific community as well as the Human Resources field. Generally speaking, most definitions of competencies required by people to succeed in the workplace include something abou...

In a typical ability test, groups of items are administered, and the number of items an examinee answers correctly is used to estimate his/her ability. The more items an individual answers correctly, the greater his/her ability is assumed to be. Howe...

Susan Hendrickson’s friends envy her. They think she goes to work every day at a great job for a wonderful company. After all, she works for an organization whose mission focuses on bringing joy to the world. Once she began her job, it became c...