These very companies are the ones facing the labor challenge and winning. They're hiring smarter, by using selection tools to help choose the right people and then benchmarking their winners and losers. That's just great. Human resource managers already have their hands full. There are so many EEOC and ADA guidelines now that selecting, developing and retaining the right employees is difficult at best.
Testing adds more to a strained budget and creates more paperwork.
In the past, good business strategy was for businesses to focus their resources on capturing market share for customers. Now we must include equal, if not greater, resources, on capturing a market share of employees. Okay, I'll buy that. Let's say it is an employees market out there. The new labor force, the Gen-Xer's and Generation Y's are demanding and diverse.