The market for candidate and employee assessment tools has never been hotter. According to a 2014 report by business intelligence firm The Aberdeen Group, 57 percent of companies use pre-hire ...

Co-authored by Andrew B. Speer and Matt I. Brown Personality at work matters. We see its impact when one employee reacts with poise when faced with unreasonable customers, whereas another expresses ...

Experienced recruiters know that finding the right employee for a role can often feel like finding a needle in a haystack. Research indicates that up to 78 percent of resumes contain misleading ...

Employers are likely to be more effective at hiring and retention when they customize pre-employment assessments to reflect job realities and company culture and use multiple assessments to evaluate ...

Skills alone don’t guarantee success. Candidates might have plenty of technical know-how, but if they can’t collaborate, ...

Eric Friedman is the Founder and CEO of eSkill, a global leader in skills testing and behavioral assessment solutions for employers. Most business leaders agree that hiring has become more challenging ...

A recent report from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) explores organizations’ use of digitized assessments in the hiring process — underlining the potential negative impact on people with ...

Hiring is a critical gateway to economic opportunity, determining who can access employment to support themselves and their families. Technology is rapidly changing every step of the employment ...

Hiring assessments can be a slippery slope for employers, especially when they rule out protected employees and create disparate impact. Upstate Niagara Cooperative learned this the hard way, agreeing ...

The increasing prevalence and prominence of automated employment decision tools in recruitment and hiring has led regulators and advocacy organizations to demand greater transparency and ...