November HR Webinar Series: Testing and Assessment

We have been thinking about minimum qualifications all wrong. Minimum qualifications are often developed with a presumption that certain types of education and experience are necessarily required for entry into a job, without consideration of what that education and experience really tells us about a candidate. This often leads to minimum qualifications that do little to narrow our candidate pools in a meaningful way, to ones that cause unfair advantage to some, while denying others employment opportunities. In this webinar, we will challenge you to think about the minimum qualification screen as the selection test that it actually is, and discuss a simple way to use job analysis data to develop minimum qualifications, as well as preferred or desirable qualifications, that are not based on assumptions, but are strictly job related and merit based.

In this webinar, we will challenge you to think about the minimum qualification screen as the selection test that it actually is, and discuss a simple way to use job analysis data to develop minimum qualifications, as well as preferred or desirable qualifications, that are not based on assumptions, but are strictly job related and merit based.

November HR Webinar Series: Testing and Assessment

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Geoff Burcaw

Geoff Burcaw is a Senior Human Resources Consultant at CPS HR Consulting with 20 years of experience consulting for state and local government agencies. His specialties are job analysis, competency model development, succession planning, and public safety assessment centers. Prior to working at CPS HR, Geoff worked as a Human Resources Litigation Consultant, and as a Job Analyst for the US Department of Labor. Geoff has a Master’s Degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and is active in several professional HR and testing organizations.

About CPS HR Consulting

CPS HR Consulting is a self-supporting public agency providing a full range of integrated HR solutions to government and nonprofit clients across the country.  Our strategic approach to increasing the effectiveness of human resources results in improved organizational performance for our clients.  We have a deep expertise and unmatched perspective in guiding our clients in the areas of organizational strategy, recruitment and selection, classification and compensation, and training and development.