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Steve Williamson

Innovator/Banker - VP Digital Content at eRep

Steve Williamson writes about work, teams, and the practical challenges of building systems that have to function in the real world. His background spans three decades of project management, software development, and technical team leadership across a range of industries. Outside of eRep, Steve is the author of a series of fantasy novels and most recently a murder mystery set in Portland, Oregon, and enjoys cycling and old-school tabletop role-playing games.

Articles

Can a psychometric assessment help you learn?

By: Steve Williamson, VP Digital Content at eRep
Posted: May 27, 2019

How do you learn most efficiently? Can you determine your optimal learning style without relying on introspective guesswork and a lot of trial and error? You might have some good ideas but how do you know for sure?

Can psychometric assessments be fooled?

By: Steve Williamson, VP Digital Content at eRep
Posted: May 20, 2019

An implicit characteristic of a quality psychometric assessment, especially regarding its reliability, is the inability of the individual taking it to manipulate or control their results.

Measuring the Effectiveness of HR Initiatives with the Happiness Index

By: Steve Williamson, VP Digital Content at eRep
Posted: May 13, 2019

It is easy to measure the effectiveness of projects that yield hard data. How do you determine if more subjective initiatives, such as Human Resources policy changes, are successful?

Hiring Hard or Hiring Smart?

By: Steve Williamson, VP Digital Content at eRep
Posted: May 6, 2019

Stop hiring the hard way by bringing on warm bodies who's only qualification for the role is having a pulse. Hire smart by selecting top candidates with an accurate and reliable psychometric assessment, the Core Values Index.

Get lucky: Find your best career path with a psychometric assessment

By: Steve Williamson, VP Digital Content at eRep
Posted: April 29, 2019

They say luck occurs when preparation meets opportunity. Success is when a challenge becomes aligned with the solution designed to match it. When looking for job satisfaction, is this something that can be planned, or is it just happenstance?

Have you put your job into the friend zone?

By: Steve Williamson, VP Digital Content at eRep
Posted: April 22, 2019

Do you love your job? If not, you may be like 119 million other workers in the U.S. that share something in common: you've put your job into the friend zone.

There is a 93% chance you are ____ in your current job

By: Steve Williamson, VP Digital Content at eRep
Posted: April 15, 2019

Studies have discovered a shocking statistic about the workplace that has a trillion dollar negative impact on the economy each year. Ask yourself two critical questions to find out if you are part of the other 7%.

Pay Equity as an Employer, Pay Equity as an Employee

By: Steve Williamson, VP Digital Content at eRep
Posted: April 8, 2019

Do you pay your employees equitably? As a worker, are you paid fairly? How do you know?

Trial and error is a terrible way to find your true vocation

By: Steve Williamson, VP Digital Content at eRep
Posted: April 1, 2019

It is shameful how much trial and error goes into the hiring process. Not only do employers reluctantly rely on it when placing workers, but many people look back on their career and realize every job they had was an almost random attempt to find their true vocation.

I nearly changed my career because of a bad boss

By: Steve Williamson, VP Digital Content at eRep
Posted: March 25, 2019

I enjoyed the work, my coworkers respected and appreciated me, and my advancement up the ranks was rewarding. Despite all those things that were going well, I was profoundly unhappy in my job. I was in the right role for my psychometric profile, but my boss was not.

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