English
Psychology has found its place in the business world long time ago. Personality assessment, along with cognitive abilities, is one of the basic areas ...
Computerized adaptive testing (CAT)
What is the alternative to the hitherto known tools for assessing candidates in selection? The technological progress of society and the development o...
Secure online selection versus blind employment
Desperate situations sometimes trigger desperate behavior. Watch it! Even though it is a crisis, you do not have to hire the first person who knows th...
The most wanted and best paying job for 2020 is software developer
Along with market researcher, training and development expert, financial analyst [...]...
ARE WE OVER-ESTIMATING WORK EXPERIENCE WHEN DOING CANDIDATE ASSESSMENT?
Very often during the selection process the best candidates are the ones who have more work experience, but is this always the case?! When they were l...
PROFESSIONAL SELECTION: HOW TO SELECT THE BEST CANDIDATE?
One of the employers, while expanding his business, decided to take over a café that was closed for months due to co-owners’ property disputes. Aft...
Being proactive at work
…Contrary to this, here the young and the unemployed believe that no one will hire them and that nothing will change, so there’s no poi...
Selection of the employees – questions at a job interview
When we are engaging in an adventure known as „job hunting“ the biggest problem s writing a CV. We are rummaging through certificates confirming o...
Asking about the salary – a tricky question at the job interview
The real answer about the salary question is actually the diplomatic avoiding of a specific answer which can be uncomfortable, so people don...
You got a rejection letter!?
The job application is maybe set up for the worst possible candidate. In the “friend of a friend” cue, but as a rule, in successful companies and ...
How to write a letter of recommendation?
The person reading a letter of recommendation sometimes doesn’t have a lot of time to read it. They will usually pay attention to relevan...
What to ask at a job interview?
If you don’t ask any questions, you leave an impression that you are the kind of person that doesn’t try. Or that you are not ambit...
Lying on a psychological test – to try or not to try?
It is used in all possible situations, especially before elections, during war and after hunting. It is also used in the procedure of staff sel...
Interview – most commonly used employee selection method
Using traditional unstructured interview was called into question because if fails to predicts candidate’s abilities – the metric characterist...
Human resources, HR departments – a lot of names for the same thing
…before there were no human resources departments in work organizations, but „personnel departments“ which were responsible for employment a...
Psychological testing – what should the candidates know
Many legends have been told about personality tests – from the one about it being able to read every person to that one about being able to l...
Staff selection – a disappointment for both candidates and employers!
According to latest studies, the first impression in made in 3 to 7 seconds. It takes that much time for some employers to decide whether to hire you ...
More information on psychological testing …
…cognitive test give information on what people can do, and personality test tell us what people want to do … In the practice of selection...
Work analysis
Work analysis is a systematized procedure of collecting and arranging data about a certain work. It is the first step in the process of forming the se...
We are happier spending money on others, than on ourselves
While a great deal of studies show that people with more money are somewhat happier than people with less money [...]...