Pre-employment testing, or talent evaluation, is continuing to expand as a general practice as companies strive to find the best candidates for job openings. Turnover reduction, improved success of ...

Employers gauge a job candidate's ability to work and learn in an establishment through pre-employment assessments. To make a sound decision in the hiring process, companies should understand how to ...

Discussing types of psychological tests, in general, can be complicated. Indeed, determining the best psychological tests used in the workplace can seem a daunting task. But it doesn't need to be. The ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Organizations across all industries are struggling to find qualified candidates, and many ...

Small-business owners often have to go with a gut feeling when hiring employees, especially when the company has only a few staff members and any new hire has to fit in with the team. In addition to ...

You’ve applied for a job and received an offer of employment, but there is one last step before the position is yours: a pre-employment drug test. For a range of jobs, particularly in the public ...

In 2012 Shane Barker set out to land a job managing social media for the San Francisco 49ers. He did not have any connections inside the company; he did not even submit his résumé. An avid user of ...

Job board Indeed also recently rolled out a skills assessment platform for job seekers that allows them to demonstrate their value in the market. These tools have emerged at the same time a shift in ...

Pre-employment drug testing can feel overwhelming for many employers. What are the rules? Do certain drugs matter more? What doesn’t matter at all? What can you let slide? The hard part is that ...

The few companies taking on new hires these days may consider themselves lucky—they’re not yet bankrupt, and they have their pick among the legions of newly unemployed and overqualified. But even ...