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Job Placement Disasters; Why I Love DISC Personality Tests

In 1985, I applied for a job at Copper Mountain Ski Resort in Colorado because I wanted to be a ski bum - and to ski for free, you had to have a job on the mountain. I applied to be a waiter because I just wanted to wait tables, ski, and drink beer (not necessarily in that order). But, Copper Mountain was owned by Mobile Oil at the time, and they were trying to bring “real hiring and management science” to those crazy ski resorts. This “science” consisted of giving every job applicant an aptitude test with insanely easy questions, e.g. "If it is sunny outside, is it day or night?"Read More

DISC/Personality Tests For Every Hire & Yourself; Self-Awareness

It was my first day on the job at Wells Fargo Bank some 27 years ago, and I was riding up the elevator with the HR director who hired me. […]Read More

DISC Tests; Right People for the Right Jobs

Erin Piper is one of the best people I know. She is accountable, skilled, congenial, fun to be around, smart and humble (she will hate this blog). She is universally […]Read More