Landing a job could require more than a polished resume and a stellar interview. Applicants may also be required to pass a pre-employment drug test before being hired. “The trend I’ve seen is toward ...

You’ve applied for a job and received an offer of employment, but there is one last step before the position is yours: a pre-employment drug test. For a range of jobs, particularly in the public ...

Why do companies use pre-employment drug testing? There are three circumstances in which workers encounter drug tests during the hiring process. The first is when workers have applied for jobs subject ...

The majority of organizations with more than 100 employees rely on assessment tests (such as aptitude and psychology tests) for external hiring. Ace these tests by knowing what kind of questions you ...

Terms like pre-employment assessment, skill testing and interviewing are often used interchangeably. While they have similar goals, they are fundamentally different methods of assessing you. Each ...

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 ...

“Finally, there is some good news for companies that want better and more accurate assessment of candidates during pre-hire screening. For the first time in the world, now candidates can be screened ...

It’s not always easy to find the best candidate for a specific opening. While personal judgments are part of the basics, and commonly used to weed out some candidates and focus on others, gut feelings ...

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 ...

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 ...