What Makes a Good Personality Test?

There are many different sorts of personality tests, word list choices (which is most like me or least like me), statement list choices, rate this statement as to how much it reflects who you are, picture tests asking you to interpret what you are seeing, lickert scale response tests, ipsative tests and a host of [...]

Establishing Validity of Selection Criteria

We build structured hiring processes for our corporate clients.  Some of the processes we see, prior to the revision, are long-drawn out systems of multiple steps and the collection of data that one would be hard pressed to review, much less show that the step was job related.  The issue of valid selection criteria is emerging [...]

Using Personality Assessments in the Selection Process

Some recent statistics in an Inc magazine article claim that 1 in 10 applicants admit that they lie on their resumes.  In a separate study, 50% of recruiters  verified that they find significant discrepancies on resumes they have received.  I was a bit shocked by those statistics, so I did a little search on the web [...]