Rocket-Hire: Helping You Navigate the Pre-Employment Screening, Testing, and Assessment Universe

Buyer's Guide v3.0 Available now!

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.

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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:

  1. Vendors of Testing, Assessment, and Hiring-related Services

    Learn more about our market research, strategic consulting, and brand alignment services…

  2. 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…

  3. Individuals in Need of Traditional I/O Psychology Consulting

    Learn more about our test development, validation and survey research services…


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.

The BAT Signal! More Evidence That the Best Business Leaders Value Assessment

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by Dr. Charles Handler March 15, 2012

Recently a client told me about a new assessment program that made my ears perk up. It’s called the Bloomberg Assessment Test (BAT) and it’s yet another piece of solid evidence that the use of pre-employment assessment is being seen as a value-add by business leaders across the globe. 

Matching: the Newest Flavor of Assessment Tools

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by Dr. Charles Handler Feb 16, 2012

I continue to be impressed by the evolution of pre-employment assessment tools. This evolution is being driven by the continued growth of the value proposition assessment provides. As a result, an increasing number of new product include embedded assessments designed to help predict which applicants have the best chance of success. 

Hot, Warm, and Cold Trends in Pre-employment Assessment for 2012 (and Beyond)

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by Dr. Charles Handler Jan 10, 2012

I’ve never felt better about the evolution of pre-employment assessment. In this coming year we’ll see some real progress toward new levels of assessment adoption that will be based more on results then on hype. But there are some significant challenges to be faced. 

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

Thurs, March 22 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET
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.

Click here to register.

Mar. 28–30, 2012 San Diego, CA
2012 ERE Expo: The Recruiting Profession's Premier Conference For three days, hundreds of corporate recruiting leaders will gather for the top recruiting conference in the industry. You don’t want to miss this!

Click here to register.

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Rocket-Hire Research

Interested in the latest employment simulation technology? Read our latest whitepaper:

Evolving Pre-Employment Assessment: How to Turn "Testing" into "Experience"

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Rocket-Hire Blog

Thought leadership, opinions, and news related to pre-employment testing and assessment

SHL Poised to Feed The Hunger for Analytics?

Feb 7, 2012

Some interesting news recently about SHL whose parent private equity firm is working with Morgan Stanley to determine the next chapter in their rapidly changing history.

Talent Management: 5 Reasons Why Choosing an Assessment Vendor Can Be Hard

Jan 17, 2012

Now that we are halfway through the first month of a new year, we can turn away from celebrating the holidays, reading predictions and making resolutions – and get down to work.

"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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