Sentence examples for employment test from inspiring English sources

In ruling for a group of white firefighters in New Haven on Monday, the Supreme Court tried to address a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't quandary for many cities and other employers: what they should do when an employment test yields results that overwhelmingly favor whites.

These days unemployment insurance is another major government expenditure, and its beneficiaries have to pass an employment test.

Once a person passes the employment test, his or her assets or financial income are irrelevant for determining eligibility or benefits.

Guards say their training and testing is very limited, and anyone who can walk at a steady pace, climb a few flights of stairs and shoot a gun with moderate accuracy can pass the employment test.

WASHINGTON — In a case that carried echoes of two of its most divisive decisions in recent years, the Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that black firefighters in Chicago did not miss a deadline to argue that the city used an employment test in a way that disproportionately hurt their chances.

The decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is only the latest in a legal battle that began with a written employment test for firefighters more than a decade ago, wound its way to the United States Supreme Court by last year and remains a matter of division and concern among the city's firefighters.

Many employers, including Sprint, also find it advantageous to screen job candidates by administering employment tests directly on line, with the assistance of companies like eTest.net, a unit of the Management Psychology Group of Atlanta.

Dr. Schmitt, an expert in personnel selection, borrowed concepts from conventional employment tests that present situations and ask test takers to choose a reaction.

For employment testing companies, this has meant an increase in business of 10percentto15percentcent a year, on average, for the last three years, said William G. Harris, executive director of the Association of Test Publishers.

Beginning in the 1990s, cash family assistance or "welfare" programs began to have their own employment tests, but with the opposite determination: employment was required for participation.

We can adopt employment tests that are fair and inclusive and do a better job at predicting job performance than many Civil Service exams now do.