White Papers by The Assessment Company

Insights into the challenges and opportunities more than 3,000 hiring managers are facing in a year unlike any other, and why the time for organizations to rebuild - better than before - is now.

Today, organizations are providing the workforce with the most advanced safety equipment in the history of modern-day risk management. This novel approach includes renewed processes, procedures, and protocols that are mainly directed toward one goal i.e. safety. Yet, accidents still occur at the...

Wiley has surveyed 3,000 hiring managers to address recruiting, interviewing, selecting, and onboarding. The results, explored in detail in State of Hiring, are clear: what enables organizations to hire the best talent is a consistent, data-driven hiring process—even if that means a complete revamp.

Set against this background, The Assessment Company®, a US based firm, offers employee assessment solutions to help businesses effectively identify, hire, coach, and develop an effective workforce, and when necessary ensure behavioral safety requirements are met. The company’s uniqueness stems...

Help Your People Work Better Together While Officing Apart While most of us thought 2020 was going to be “our year,” everything got derailed when the pandemic struck, sending people to all corners of their homes in search of a comfortable, functional workspace. Displaced and distracted,...

As the coronavirus crisis creates unprecedented times, it’s critical that companies figure out how to protect and increase revenues—not defaulting to layoffs, containing or cutting costs. Indeed, the ability to grow will separate the leaders from the pack and this is exactly what The Assessment...

A look at the dynamic nature of teams in today’s workplace based on insights from over 20,000 employees.

Picture yourself smiling and shaking the hand of a new employee on their first day of work. You’re excited because, well, you hired them. This person might be a completely new hire or someone who moved to your team from within the company. Either way, you feel pretty good about them. After all,...

Artificial Intelligence is now wrapping its tentacles around every job field, threatening to squeeze the life out with its mechanical dominance. While some are taking advantage of AI, there is still a large group who are hesitant to place their trust in it.

As children, we blossomed among team settings. When a teacher grouped us into teams, we were excited to conquer the task at hand with our fellow classmates. We gave our very best to earn our place on a sports team, and our teammates often became our best friends. We even took the liberties of...

Attracting and retaining top talent employees is no easy feat for human resource management.

Most of us flinch at the thought of mixing anything personal with anything business. That’s surely asking for a disaster to occur… right?

Managing and maintaining safety in the workplace.

Thanks to better access to education globally, there are a great many skilled candidates hunting for jobs. At first glance, this is great —there are many qualified people who will likely satisfy your employee needs. However, this abundance of talent poses another problem. With so much choice,...

The forward-focused management approach of 360-degree feedback is indeed powerful. Smart organizations are adopting this approach to allow their employees to have a more objective view of their personal development.

Are employee personality and workplace safety really related in any way? They definitely are –and it’s crucial for organizations to understand the correlation between these variables.

Have you heard the ever-popular story of an old man who asks his sons to break sticks, first individually and then in a bundle? We bet you have! It’s such an amazing story teaching us that ‘unity is strength’. Now, if we see it from the business perspective, it applies ever so...

Let’s get straight to the point―which qualities do you search for during employee selection? Skill and experience are the first things that come to mind. You might even consider education and certifications. However, can these things guarantee productivity and higher performance? Probably not!...

Here are the TOP 20 QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR EMPLOYEE ASSESSMENT VENDOR or anyone who might be selling Human Resource Solutions. It’s important to know if they will be a good partner to work with or just full of hot air, cute bells and cool whistles.

In many organizations, personnel costs are among the largest budget line items, and given the top challenges facing CEO’s, organizations need their leaders, managers, and people aligned and working together at the highest levels of performance.

You can have recruitment without talent acquisition, but you cannot have talent acquisition without recruitment. Recruitment (at least the definition) is simple: finding talent to fill open positions. Talent acquisition, however, is a much bigger animal. Talent acquisition takes into account...

Over my 26 year career in the employee assessment industry, I’ve tried to present the complex world of psychometric assessments in a simple, human, smart approach to make HR Life Easier™. Often times, businesses are trying to determine which assessment would be best for their particular need....

In today’s economy, nearly every organization faces pressure to reduce waste and run at peak efficiency. For many, this means making difficult personnel decisions to eliminate positions that don’t add sufficient value to the organization and either eliminating or re-deploying people in those...

Lean how the latest innovations in the area of adaptive assessments offer increased accuracy, are more enjoyable for the participant, provide improved information for management, and yield higher returns for the organizations.

Sitting in a classroom one day, surrounded by safety committee members from numerous local companies, a fellow classmate adamantly proclaimed "people are flawed" when asked to describe why a particularly unfortunate individual ignored safety rules and lost his life in a wood chipper. I’ve...