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Enhancing the NFL Draft with Expanded Assessment Tools

With the NFL draft just weeks away, clubs are getting more information than ever about prospective players, says an APA blog article by Mackenna Perry....

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Assessment Tools Ranked in Top 3 of Importance for Talent Acquisition

As 2017 approaches, companies are reassessing their talent acquisition needs and budgets. In preparation, LinkedIn completed a comprehensive survey of human resource professionals and compiled...

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Secret of the Chicago Cubs’ Success? Hiring the Person, not the Performance

As Hard as it is for someone from St. Louis to say the words, “World Series-champion Chicago Cubs,” you do have to hand it to...

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Help, I think I hired a psychopath!

Here’s a surprising statistic: studies indicate that 4% of the population are psychopaths— 1% women and 3% men. That’s 1 in every 25 Americans. If...

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The Importance of Culture Fit

Have you ever hired an employee who looked great on paper, interviewed really well, was good at what they did, but just did not work...

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The growth of talent analytics

Organizations are obsessed with measuring business performance from the return on capital and top line growth to inventory turns and cost of goods. While HR...

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A reasoned perspective on personality testing in hiring

Many of you have seen today’s (September 30, 2014) Wall Street Journal article entitled, “Are workplace personality tests fair?” http://finance.yahoo.com/news/are-workplace-personality-tests-fair-164715348.html and may have wondered about...

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Testing: From the Tester’s Point of view

Here at Leadership Alliance, we recently hired a new employee, applying the strategies that we utilize for our clients in our own hiring practices. We asked our...