Hiring managers are leaning on pre-employment assessments that test applicants' soft skills in order to see beyond their ...

While drug tests can be conducted using blood or hair, pre-employment testing is usually less invasive. “It often involves nothing more than a visit to a lab and urinalysis,” Moran says.

Aptitude test. This defines the applicants’ aptitude or their inclination to hard work, among other desirable traits, capacity for learning, such as a new language, and their general suitability for ...

CritiCall Pre-Employment Skills Testing Software is designed to assess dispatcher and calltaker applicants' job-related skills such as data entry, multi-tasking, memory recall, decision-making ...

But these tools are just the latest frontier in a long history of employment tests that can discriminate and harm job seekers. For example, one of the landmark civil rights cases, Griggs v. Duke Power ...

Jobs in transportation, public safety and those considered “safety sensitive” — think construction, manufacturing, others — still will be subject to THC testing requirements.

Of 83 failed pre-employment drug tests this year, 81 were for marijuana. Marijuana testing will remain in place for a large swath of government employees, including health workers, ...

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… ...