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Rudy Crous

Rudy Crous is a Corporate Psychologist and the Co-founder & CEO of Compono, a next-generation work platform transforming how organisations engage, hire, develop, and certify talent. With deep expertise in culture, competence, and performance, Rudy works with businesses and governments to drive smarter people decisions—seamlessly connecting education, work, and capability to build thriving teams, workplaces, and communities.

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Part 6: Item Design: Every Question Needs to Earn Its Place

This is Part 6 of the 'Better Assessment Design Series: Why Good Tests Are About More Than Questions and Scores.' Click here for more in the series.

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Part 4: Reliability: Why a Good Assessment Result Should Not Feel Like Luck

This is Part 4 of the 'Better Assessment Design Series: Why Good Tests Are About More Than Questions and Scores.' Click here for more in the series.

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Part 3: Validity: The Most Important Question in Assessment Design

This is Part 3 of the 'Better Assessment Design Series: Why Good Tests Are About More Than Questions and Scores.' Click here for more in the series.

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Part 2: Readability: If People Cannot Understand the Question, You Cannot Trust What the Answer Means

This is Part 2 of the 'Better Assessment Design Series: Why Good Tests Are About More Than Questions and Scores.' Click here for more in the series.

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Part 1 - Bloom’s Taxonomy: The Difference Between Knowing the Answer and Understanding What to Do

This is Part 1 of the 'Better Assessment Design Series: Why Good Tests Are About More Than Questions and Scores.' Click here for more in the series....

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AI can get you shortlisted. A human still decides. Rudy Crous, Compono

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AI can get you shortlisted. A human still decides.

I spent 25 minutes on ABC Radio National on Monday with Lisa Leong, talking about how you get hired when both sides of the table have handed the job...

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Alex Pusenjak

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Why Fluent Commerce made hours irrelevant

Alex Pusenjak stopped tracking hours at Fluent Commerce and started tracking impact. The result: 96% employee willingness to go above and beyond and...

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Deepak Singh

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What whiteboard markers can teach us about employee engagement

Deepak Singh asked his team a simple question after running an engagement survey: what would actually make a real difference? Some teams came back...

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Teresa Lilly

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Culture is who you promote, not what's on the wall

Most companies define culture as their values statement, their Friday drinks, their Slack emojis. Teresa Lilly, founder of Culture Pilot Co and a...

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Why pay is never about the number (and what startups keep getting wrong)

Pay is one of those things that founders think they can figure out later. Matt McFarlane, compensation consultant and founder of FNDN, has spent...

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