by E.A.S.I-Consult | Feb 24, 2020 | Culture, Pre-Employment Testing
With the U.S. unemployment rate at 3.6 percent, virtually every industry is struggling to find high-quality employees (January 2020; Bureau of Labor Statistics). However, healthcare has been especially challenging. In fact, healthcare employment needs grew 2.5% during...
by E.A.S.I-Consult | Feb 23, 2020 | Learning Agility, Pre-Employment Testing
Over the last couple of years, I’ve written several articles for our newsletter on how work attitude impacts job and organization success. The consistent message has been that organizations must address this before hiring an employee, rather than trying to fix a...
by E.A.S.I-Consult | Dec 21, 2019 | Culture, Leadership, Pre-Employment Testing
The use of computers to collect data about us and create algorithms to predict something about us has been increasing for decades. Today, that is coalescing into a growing use of — and dependence — on artificial intelligence, or AI. Mobile phones, PCs, Google, Alexa...
by E.A.S.I-Consult | Dec 21, 2019 | Coaching & Mentoring, Pre-Employment Testing
The U.S. unemployment rate remains steady at 3.5 percent, which is a 50-year low (December 6, 2019; Bureau of Labor Statistics). And, if you talk to people with children in high school, they generally believe that if their child obtains a four-year college degree,...
by E.A.S.I-Consult | Sep 25, 2019 | Coaching & Mentoring, Leadership, Learning Agility, Pre-Employment Testing
Does anyone remember the computer language Fortran taught to almost all IT college majors and those in other related fields? Or how about dialing “0” on your rotary phone for an operator to set you up with an international call? These were essential skills that have...
by E.A.S.I-Consult | May 31, 2019 | Learning Agility, Personality, Pre-Employment Testing
Do we have a skill deficit in our workforce today? You bet! And it will last for some time. According to the U.S. Department of Labor statistics, at the end of January, the U.S. economy had 7.6 million unfilled jobs, but only 6.5 million people were looking for work....
