Assessment tests are used by employers in a variety of ways to ensure job candidates, as well as current employees, have the required skills to perform different jobs within an organization. Many of ...

Employee assessments are an effective tool for managing employee performance. On some occasions, assessments can cause anger and negativity, particularly if an employee feels the evaluation was ...

While Big Tech jobs were once among the most desired, they have recently lost their glamour, as the BBC recently put it. This began in 2022, when a wave of layoffs hit Big Tech, with Amazon shedding ...

This is a very familiar scenario that you outline. In comparison with technical skills, interpersonal skills often lag behind in terms of development, perhaps because they have not been emphasized as ...

A well-designed employee assessment system is critical for a number of reasons, one of them being to strengthen the legal defensibility of a hospital’s hiring system. 1. Whereas interviews are ...

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. The saying rings especially true in the world of business. Business leaders who reflect on the economic meltdowns of 1997 and 2008, for example, will ...

When an employee’s traits, skills and interests don’t align well with their job, challenges will likely arise, including ongoing interpersonal conflicts, disengagement and flight risk, leading to ...

Leadership programs designed to inspire and train the next generation of leaders are the foundation of succession planning. But, how can those programs succeed if an organization doesn't have a system ...

Employee turnover is a costly reality in any industry and retaining top talent in healthcare is particularly challenging and oftentimes problematic. Employee turnover not only has a significant impact ...

In Part IV of my series on ISO 37001, I examine requirements relating to risk assessments, design of policies and procedures, and due diligence requirements. Under Section 6.1, a company is required ...