With Opening Day of the 2016 Major League Baseball season just a few days away, conversation is already heating up about how players express emotion on the field and the right way to play the game…
3 Interviewing Tips to Help You Hire the Right Person
Hiring someone can be a time-consuming and nerve-wracking task. Ideally, you’ll find the perfect person for the position right away – someone who hits the ground running…
Put All Your Pre-Employment Assessment Tools in One Basket
With Easter arriving this Sunday, thoughts turn to pastel, potted lilies, and, naturally, Cadbury. One time-tested TV ad, dating back to the early 90s, graces our screens every springtime…
Batman v Superman v Predictability
Is it necessary to issue a spoiler alert before talking about a movie you haven’t actually seen yet? It’s not like everyone doesn’t already know what’s going to happen in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice…
The “Madness” of Making Non-Scientific Decisions
Beyond the squeaking of sneakers, the passion of college crowds, and the thrill of an underdog, NCAA March Madness generally brings to mind one word: brackets….
Hiring in Someone’s Image. A mistake?
Say you’ve gotten good business results from using personality assessments, and now you want to expedite the talent-acquisition process. One of your first inclinations…
When Personality Assessment Results Disappoint
When we talk about personality-based employment assessments, the message is often some variation of: Using a valid pre-employment assessment can help you dig deeper than resumes and interviews…
4 Reasons to Invest in a Pre-Employment Report
If you’ve ever considered using “personality tests” to guide a hiring decision, or if you’re researching them now for the first time, you should know a few things: One, there are a ton of them on the market….
Pre-Employment Assessments and You: A Purr-fect Match
Dominance. Impulsiveness. Neuroticism. The characteristics of a C-suite executive? Alec Baldwin’s character in the film Glengarry Glen Ross? Not quite. Actually, according to a recent study conducted by the Bronx Zoo…
Using Personality Assessments For Any Candidate, In Any Role
In Caliper’s more than 50 years of researching job match and job fit, we have found that – when it comes to salespeople –it’s not just personality that makes a job fit or the motivation they possess that makes them successful…