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Are you the Nursing Type?

Research from a psychological consultancy company has found nurses tend to score lower than the general population for resilience. Psychological Consultancy Limited (PCL) used ...

Coaching, Risk and Opportunity

In the recent financial meltdown, the risk behaviour of quite a small number of people came near to destroying western culture. This serves to ...

Gender Stereotyping – is There Something in it?

Gillian Hyde’s article, Gender Stereotyping: is there something in it?, features in the spring edition of Women in Trade UK Magazine.   International Women’s Day ...

Latest ROI Data for Hogan Assessments

When you use Hogan’s assessment solutions to help manage your people, you want to know they work. So, year after year, Hogan provides empirical ...

Conform to the Norm?

There has been a big push from successive governments to try to modernise the public sector. As much as this relates to the structure, ...

‘Leadership: stress and hubris’

Why do some leaders, from all walks of life, succumb to hubris – arrogance, overweening pride and contempt for others? These questions were the ...

Is It Possible To Fool A Psychometric Test?

The way we present ourselves when completing a personality questionnaire is subject to the same distortion and manipulations deployed in real life encounters. We ...

Entrepreneur or Intrapreneur?

Judging by the daily pronouncements of international economic foundations, governments and think tanks everywhere, the world is looking to entrepreneurs to cure all our ...

How does your personality contribute to your success in IT?

In the 1980s, when computers were still a novelty, psychologists were busy researching “computer aptitude”, a specific kind of intelligence that would identify those ...

Five Pitfalls To Avoid With Online Personality Profiling

Online personality profiling is growing fast, and a few mouse clicks can shepherd tens of thousands of candidates through the mysteries of the psychometrics ...

Do you need to be a certain type of person to work in marketing?

The ultimate goal of those working in marketing is to promote a product and generates sales, but what does it take? Earlier this year, ...

The Five Pitfalls of Personality Profiling

    Many employers use personality profiling as part of the recruitment process – but are they giving you the right results? Geoff Tricky, ...