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• Testing and Assessment: An Employers Guide to Good Practices -  U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration guide to help managers and human resource (HR) professionals use assessment practices that are the right choices for reaching their organizations’ HR goals. It conveys the essential concepts of employment testing in easy-to-understand terms so that managers and HR professionals can evaluate and select assessment tools/procedures that maximize chances for getting the right fit between jobs and employees, administer and score assessment tools that are the most efficient and effective for their particular needs, interpret assessment results in an accurate manner, and understand the professional and legal standards to be followed when conducting personnel assessment. Download PDF
• What's Your Corporate DNA - Hiring people that match it is Invaluable. by Mark Sheffert Chairman and CEO of Manchester Companies Inc.
• Increase Your Competitive Advantage while Reducing Your Workforce by Lee J. Cohen, President of The L Group Inc., Dallas based consulting firm.
• Job Matching for Hiring Top Performers and Improving Job Performance. Anthony Pantaleone, Regional Vice President, Profiles International, Inc. explains why job match assessments can help identify and retain top performing employees.
• LIFO helps General Electric Increase Productivity LIFO^® Training focuses on strengths -- on what's right about individuals and teams. It begins by identifying peoples' basic orientations to life and work. Based on this information, it offers powerful learning strategies that enable individuals and teams to be more productive and more influential when dealing with key people. See our Team Analysis Assessment
• How To Reward Top Performers In Tight Times -Now more than ever, intangible rewards are an organization's ally in the competition to motivate and retain top talent. In other words, when times are tough, it truly is the thought that counts.
• Making Management Teams Work: Feedback is a Necessity, Not a Luxury. Take a look at our CheckPoint 360 degree feedback management survey
• Embezzlers Cash In On Poor Business Practices No business, large or small, is safe from embezzlement. No one knows for sure the total cost to business because much of it is unreported.
• Employee Coaching Perspectives - Coaching usually refers to a relationship between an individual and a trained professional who work on a set of pre-defined objectives with the aim of achieving particular goals or targets.
• Background Check ABC's - An outline of 27 steps you can take during the recruiting, hiring, training, and post-hire stages to minimize any surprises concerning the background of one of your employees.
• ABC's of Employee Background Checks - An outline of 27 steps you can take during the recruiting, hiring, training, and post-hire stages to minimize any surprises concerning the background of one of your employees.
• Fair Credit Reporting Act - FCRA  - This version of the FCRA is complete as of January 7, 2002. It includes the amendments to the FCRA set forth in the Consumer Credit Reporting Reform Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-208, the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1997, Title II, Subtitle D, Chapter 1), Section 311 of the Intelligence Authorization for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105-107), the Consumer Reporting Employment Clarification Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-347), Section 506 of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Public Law 106-102), and Sections 358(g) and 505(c) of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act) (Public Law 107-56).
• Testing - Right and resposonsibilities The rights and responsibilities listed in this document are neither legally based nor inalienable rights and responsibilities such as those listed in the United States of America's Bill of Rights. Rather, they represent the best judgments of testing professionals about the reasonable expectations that those involved in the testing enterprise (test producers, test users, and test takers) should have of each other.