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We are pleased to announce that the latest version of our Buyer's Guide to Screening and Assessment Systems is now live.
Our newest Buyer's Guide picks up where our last one left off, providing even more expert, objective information about vendors of quality pre-employment recruiting, screening, and assessment tools. Our profiles are a must for those who are considering purchasing pre-employment screening and assessment products.
Welcome to Rocket-Hire! Founded in 2001, Rocket-Hire is a consultancy that links sound science and best practices in pre-employment testing and assessment with technology and innovation. We do not sell assessments. Instead, we objectively combine our knowledge of assessments and the assessment marketplace to provide strategic advice and solutions that create value for our clients.
We serve 3 types of clients:
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Vendors of Testing, Assessment, and Hiring-related Services
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Consumers and End Users of Testing and Assessment
Learn more about our assessment and selection system audit, our vendor selection methodology, and our 3rd party validation services…
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Individuals in Need of Traditional I/O Psychology Consulting
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Recent Articles
Rocket-Hire’s founder, Dr. Charles Handler, provides thought leadership on assessment via articles for the Electronic Recruiting Exchange and other media outlets.
Notes from the HR Technology Show: Assessment (and the rest of HR) hits the jackpot with data analytics
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by Dr. Charles Handler Oct 12, 2011
I am still a bit disappointed that the majority of talent management vendors do not include assessment as a core part of their product offering. However, there were many talent management vendors who have begun to take steps down the right path. There were more vendors than ever offering a variety of interesting and unique products that demonstrate a continued deeper integration of assessment products designed to do more than just sling tests at job applicants.
Busted! A Decade's Worth of Data on EEOC/OFCCP Action on Assessments and Selection Systems
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by Dr. Charles Handler Sep 23, 2011
Every year I attend the annual Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology conference to learn and make sure I am in touch with the latest goings-on in my field. This past year I was very excited to walk away with an unpublished research paper titled Legal Risk in Selection: An analysis of processes and tools, by Kate Williams, a doctoral candidate at Clemson University.
Pre-Employment Assessment and Candidate Feedback: Letters From the Black Hole
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by Dr. Charles Handler Jul 21, 2011
The web sure is an interesting place. Where else can people you have never met find you and reach out for highly specific advice, providing real world stories that help us keep in touch with the end-user perspective?
Success With Pre-Employment Assessment Can be Yours in 4 Easy Steps
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by Dr. Charles Handler May 5, 2011
The general climate among HR and staffing professionals is that pre-employment assessment is a complex and confusing matter that is not really worth the hassle. Why is this so?
Keepin' it Real: Assessment's Value Prop for Recruiters and Hiring Managers
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by Dr. Charles Handler Mar 29, 2011
Thoughts following ERE Expo in San Diego.
See all of Dr. Handler's articles on ERE.net
Events
Speaking engagements, workshops, webcasts, and conference appearances by Dr. Charles Handler
Webcast (with Electronic Recruiting Exchange)
January 18, 2012 at 2 pm est
Show me the money! Choosing a pre-employment assessment partner: In this webcast, Dr. Charles Handler, president and founder of Rocket-Hire, a vendor neutral assessment consulting firm, shares his proven methodology for developing an assessment strategy and choosing the best vendor to help you execute it.Registration link »
Rocket-Hire Research
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Evolving Pre-Employment Assessment: How to Turn "Testing" into "Experience"
Sponsored by Kenexa.
Rocket-Hire Blog
Thought leadership, opinions, and news related to pre-employment testing and assessment
"Everything in the future online is going to look like a multiplayer game"- Eric Schmidt (CEO, Google)
Jul 20, 2011
Besides causing serious concerns about personal privacy, when has Google ever been wrong? I am sure they have had a few projects that have not worked out but few can argue that they have been a major driver in the evolution of the web.
Rocket-Hire is 10: Reflections on a decade of testing
May 20, 2011
We are very excited to announce our Tenth anniversary!!! That's right, through good times and bad we at Rocket-Hire continue to work hard to promote the benefits of best practices based screening and assessment programs.
SHL/PreVisor's Global Assessment Trends Report: The latest word on testing
May 18, 2011
I want to highlight a few trends that I find interesting and which are consistent with my own work as an assessment analyst. Most of the things I find interesting have to do with disconnects between what companies are saying they value and the actions they are using to prove it.
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