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In his interview with Jehan Ara on “In the Line of Wire” Saleem Qureshi, President & COO HireLabs Inc., talks about the need for employment assessment so that people are placed in the right professions, in the right departments and at the right level of competency.

Saleem and his company work mainly with large organizations to ensure that all employees and potential employees are assessed to determine that they are right for the jobs they are being placed in. I asked him if similar assessme… Continue

Organizations need more valid employment screening programs that can show a direct impact of

assessment scores on business outcomes. The current economic downturns require a more integrated approach, as organizations try to identify between mission-critical programs and costly options that end up being merely ‘excursion’ trips.

The use of predictive modeling demands that no shortcuts are taken. It is important to balance expenses with assessment outcomes. ROI needs to specify the type of outco… Continue

The VCs must ask themselves if their companies are run by management teams¹ that capable of driving companies as the recession bottoms. Studying the shift in the current unemployment rates in the US, HireLabs can forecast a recovery in the international labor market – lead by the US – sometime around Feb 2010. Very few CEOs of venture-backed companies have the experience of riding a company out of a recession successfully.

The first sign that a management team is not performing at optimum is wh… Continue