Keeping Up
Personnel selection and assessment; including test and exercise design
The selection and appraisal of employees according to valid and reliable
analysis of jobs and sound psychometric principles.
Key Tasks
- Conducting, understanding and evaluating job analysis and descriptions.
- Identifying and developing appropriate selection tools.
- Proficient in various selection techniques such as personality and
cognitive ability testing, work sample design, and structured interviewing.
- Proficiency in various appraisal techniques such as rating scales
qualitative and quantitative appraisal methods.
Reading
- Assessment
Centres
Assessment for Recruitment
- Attracting
talent, Winning the war for talent
- Electronic Recruitment Exchange
- Collins, C M (1998). Biodata and attrition: an evaluation of Mael
& Ashforth's biodata instrument. Masters Thesis. University of Waikato
- Schmidt
and Hunter (2004). General Mental Ability in the World of Work: Occupational
Attainment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Meade
(2004). Psychometric problems and issues involved with. Journal of Occupational
and Organizational Psychology (2004), 77, 531–552.
- Goodwin
and Leech (2006). Understanding Correlation:Factors That Affect the
Size of r. The Journal of Experimental Education.
Assessment for Development
- A
Review of the Emotional Intelligence Literature and Implications for
Corrections
Meta analysis
- Botella,
J. and Gambara, H. (2006) Doing and reporting a meta analysis. International
Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 6. 2. 425-440
Norming
- Program for norming
assessment scores
- http://www.irdp.ch/edumetrie/englishprogram.htm
Personality
Assessment
Adverse Impact
- Brown,
R.P. and Day, E.A. (July, 2006) The difference isn't black and white:
stereotype threat and the race gap on Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices.
Journal of Applied Psychology, 91, 4, 979-985
Anxiety
Scales
NZ Research
Networks
Other Activities
- Ask a peer to critically review your work
- Prepare or review a best
practice guideline in the area
- Aim to read an article regularly and review it for the practical
implications for your work
- Canvas a post graduate University Course to refresh your approach
and be exposed to the latest literature