Dr. Charles Handler

Dr. Charles Handler (chandler@rocket-hire.com), is the president and founder of Rocket-Hire.com. Throughout his career he has specialized in developing effective, legally defensible employee selection systems. He has taken what he learned developing recruiting and selection solutions for a wide variety of organizations and combined it with his love of technology to help clients develop new models for employee selection. His philosophy focuses on combining sound science with innovation and practicality to create online hiring strategies that provide ROI and demonstrate the value of human capital. Charles has a Master's and Ph.D. in Industrial Psychology.

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5 Ways to Realize Value From Pre-employment Assessment During a Labor Shortage

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Dr. Charles Handler
Oct 1, 2008, 5:50 am ET

It’s easy to demonstrate the impact of pre-employment assessments when there are a large number of candidates available. In such situations, there is a strong need to use some sort of filter to help quickly eliminate unqualified applicants (screening out) and to collect more in-depth information about those who are qualified (screening in). Assessment is... [full article »]

Assessment and Job Boards: Two Years Later

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Dr. Charles Handler
Aug 5, 2008, 8:58 pm ET

Back in 2006 I wrote an article discussing the integration of assessments into job boards. It was an example of the continued movement toward the inclusion of assessments into the mainstream of recruiting and hiring products and systems. In this article, I praised the progress being made in understanding the value of quality assessment products... [full article »]

Managerial-Level Assessments: Past, Present, and Future

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Dr. Charles Handler
May 20, 2008

Article and research by Charles Handler and Mark C. Healy Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the number of assessment tools available for use in both hiring and developing employees at all levels of the organization. [full article »]

Results from the 5th Annual Rocket-Hire Online Screening and Assessment Usage Survey

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Dr. Charles Handler
Apr 15, 2008

Article and research by Charles Handler and Mark C. Healy For the last five years, Rocket-Hire has surveyed talent-management professionals who use Web-based screening and assessment products to enhance and quantify their hiring processes. Our goal for this research is to document trends in the usage of online screening and assessment tools in order to help... [full article »]

10 Screening and Assessment Trends for 2008

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Dr. Charles Handler
Jan 8, 2008

Every year, I take a few minutes to reflect on the things I have noticed while working with both producers and consumers of screening and assessment tools. Overall, I am very encouraged by what I have been seeing. The market for screening and assessment tools continues to grow. This makes me extremely happy because we... [full article »]

Turnover: Insights from the Real World

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Dr. Charles Handler
Nov 16, 2007

We I/O psychologists spend a lot of time talking to people about what they do, and we try to identify the human traits and experiences it takes to perform their jobs. We then use this information to develop components of the hiring process that will allow organizations to make predictions about which applicants will make... [full article »]

Pre-Employment Assessment Reports: Then and Now

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Dr. Charles Handler
Oct 10, 2007

No facet of assessment has experienced as much change over the past decade as has the reporting of candidates’ results. Those of us who worked with assessment back in the dark ages can attest to the frustration experienced with the reporting of assessment results. In those days the following were the norm: [full article »]

Fifth Annual Screening and Assessment Usage Survey

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Dr. Charles Handler
Oct 3, 2007

We I-O psychologist-types tend to be real data hounds. Much of the work we do for our employers/clients involves the use of data to investigate specific hypotheses in order to illuminate the underlying truth in a situation. The outcome of this work often has tremendous value to organizations because it provides them with hard data... [full article »]

Budgeting for Assessments

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Dr. Charles Handler
Sep 11, 2007

One of the most difficult aspects of using assessment lies in gaining an understanding of the various pricing models associated with it. This understanding is critical when it comes time to budget for an assessment program. Even if your organization has experience using assessment, budgeting can be a very difficult issue. Budgeting for assessment can be... [full article »]

What’s Good and Bad About Employee Profiling

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Dr. Charles Handler
Jul 10, 2007

Recently, many of my clients have inquired about the viability of an assessment methodology known as employee profiling. As with many of the available assessment methods, there are legitimate concerns about the value of this method for helping organizations make legally sound and effective hiring decisions. It is hard to provide a universal answer to this... [full article »]

Getting to Know I/O Psychologists

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Dr. Charles Handler
May 22, 2007

Article by Charles Handler and Mark C. Healy Many ERE readers are aware that there are several different types of scientists who study the interaction between humans and the workplace. Among this small but illustrious group are several types of psychologists, including those of the industrial/organizational variety (i.e., I/O psychologists). [full article »]

Supporting Assessment, Maximizing the Candidate Experience

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Dr. Charles Handler
Apr 24, 2007

Applying for a job isn’t very satisfying for many an applicant. Application processes are often shrouded in mystery because they represent a one-way flow of information that requires the candidate to provide information to a potential employer without receiving much in return. It’s too bad, because both research and common sense indicate that the manner in... [full article »]

Hiring for Potential vs. Skill

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Dr. Charles Handler
Mar 28, 2007

In seeking to create an effective hiring strategy, there’s a continuum that dictates the key attributes that should be measured in applicants. Finding the right point on this continuum is the key to ensuring that hiring supports an organization’s strategic goals and objectives. This article provides an overview of the relevance of the two end points... [full article »]

What Is and Isn’t Happening in Staffing and Assessment

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Dr. Charles Handler
Mar 7, 2007

Assessment is becoming an essential part of a bigger picture. This is a good thing, because assessment should not be viewed as a static, transactional event but rather as one component of a broader process designed to improve decision-making. With that in mind, here’s a quick summary of the major trends we should be keeping an... [full article »]

Employee Selection in the Second Life

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Dr. Charles Handler
Jan 16, 2007

Remember back in the early days of the Internet era, when the term “virtual reality” was applied to just about anything that had to do with a computerized representation of some aspect of reality? Everyone was abuzz about the idea of creating virtual representations of almost any situation. While most of the ideas related to virtual... [full article »]

Assessment As Part of the Job-Search Process

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Dr. Charles Handler
Nov 28, 2006

I’ve been tracking trends in the screening and assessment marketplace for over five years now, and I’m pleased to see the progress that is being made in understanding the value of quality-assessment products in the modern hiring process. Folks are finally starting to get the idea that assessments are but one component of a broader process... [full article »]

Major Findings From The Annual Rocket-Hire Online Screening and Assessment Usage Survey

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Dr. Charles Handler
Oct 31, 2006

Article and research by Charles Handler and Mark C. Healy For the last three years, Rocket-Hire has surveyed ERE readers who use Web-based screening and assessment products as part of their hiring process. The information we have been able to gather from this research has been a valuable part of our efforts to track important trends... [full article »]

Choosing an Assessment Vendor: What to Look for

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Dr. Charles Handler
Sep 14, 2006

Recently I provided some tips about what to look for in an assessment product. This article provides complementary information by outlining basic information to help you determine the level of fit between vendors of pre-employment assessments and the specific needs of your organization. This is critical in ensuring the successful use of assessment tools. There... [full article »]

What to Look for in an Assessment

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Dr. Charles Handler
Sep 12, 2006

The value of properly selected and implemented assessment tools continues to be a hot topic among hiring professionals. Those who are using pre-employment assessments properly have been able to add significant value to their hiring processes. Unfortunately, choosing the right assessment tools ? those that ensure you will accomplish your key organizational goals and objectives ?... [full article »]

What You Need to Know About What’s Happening in the Pre-Employment Assessment Market

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Dr. Charles Handler
Jul 20, 2006

Over the past several years, an increasing number of companies have begun to realize the potential revenue to be gained from selling pre-employment tests as part of a suite of hiring tools and processes designed to help organizations make effective, legally sound hiring decisions. There’s a wide range of companies offering some form of pre-employment... [full article »]