{"id":1033,"date":"2007-06-26T15:03:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T20:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/are-you-using-assessments\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T15:03:43","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T20:03:43","slug":"are-you-using-assessments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/are-you-using-assessments\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Using Assessments?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people are, according to a Workforce Management Quick Take titled <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.workforce.com\/section\/quick_takes\/49623_3.html\">Organizations Look to Get Personal in \u20ac\u212207<\/a>.  Statistics from the short article (my emphasis):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Organizations in 2007 will increasingly turn to personality tests when recruiting and hiring, according to Birkman International in Houston. Birkman, citing research from New Orleans-based Rocket-Hire Inc. (a <em><em>Dear Workforce<\/em><\/em> contributor), says 65 percent of companies used them in 2006, <strong>up from 34 percent a year earlier<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is a noticeable increase in one year.  If you are not using assessments today in your hiring process, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Assessing_Main.html\">we can help<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people are, according to a Workforce Management Quick Take titled Organizations Look to Get Personal in \u20ac\u212207. Statistics from the short article (my emphasis): Organizations in 2007 will increasingly turn to personality tests when recruiting and hiring, according to Birkman International in Houston. Birkman, citing research from New Orleans-based Rocket-Hire Inc. (a Dear Workforce contributor), says 65 percent of companies used them in 2006, up from 34 percent a year earlier. That is a noticeable increase in one year. If you are not using assessments today in your hiring process, we can help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,2,16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessing","category-hiring","category-hiring-salespeople","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-gF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1195,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/background-screening-stats\/","url_meta":{"origin":1033,"position":0},"title":"Background Screening Stats","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"September 20, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"According to a recent article in Workforce Managements Newsletter, almost as many employees are discharged for poor performance as those who leave for better pay or for personal reasons. 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In a survey of 500 small businesses nationwide\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Assessing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Assessing","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/assessing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1493,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/simulation-training-and-hiring\/","url_meta":{"origin":1033,"position":2},"title":"Simulation Training And Hiring","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Lee and I recently attended certification training for one of the assessments we use and found the training to be quite good.\u00a0 The part that made it memorable is the fact that we were asked to use the assessments in real-life scenarios.\u00a0 That type of training sticks, according to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Assessing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Assessing","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/assessing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1072,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/a-thorough-verification\/","url_meta":{"origin":1033,"position":3},"title":"A Thorough Verification","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We are strong proponents of candidate assessments as you know from reading our blog.\u00a0 There is another aspect of successful hiring that we advocate and that is thorough background verifications.\u00a0 We have numerous customers who conduct employment, education, credit and drug verifications. 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