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 ...

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 ...

In his blog post “Pseudoscience or Useful Tool?” (The Chronicle, December 20), David Evans seems surprised that personality tests can accurately reveal a great deal of useful information about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why do companies use pre-employment drug testing? There are three circumstances in which workers encounter drug tests during the ...

There is some degree of risk for an employer when he must hire a new worker or promote an existing employee. A bad decision can hurt the business. Behavior-based employment testing uses written tests ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Elizabeth Pearson covers career trends and women in business. If you haven’t been asked to take a lengthy assessment test prior to ...

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 ...

Adults might think they left tests behind when they graduated from school. But studies show most businesses apply work-force testing in some form, from simple skills assessments to complicated ...

Conventional wisdom holds that the standardized tests some employers require of job applicants serve as a barrier to equal employment. But a pioneering study shows just the opposite: Screening ...

Since the early 2000s, the global job market has been transitioning toward a system where job-seekers have more power than ever before. Competitive wages, highly-specialized fields, and remote ...