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Poorest Method?

Learn about the various selection methods used in employment, including testing cognitive abilities and personality traits. Discover how these methods can help justify hiring choices and ensure fairness.

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Poorest Method?

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  1. Poorest Method? • Interviews and References • Why? • However, most common used.

  2. Employment Laws • Require hiring choices to be justified • Proven not to be • Arbitrary • Discriminatory • Hence, wealth of selection methods

  3. Selection Testing • Based on a signal detection idea • HIT: hiring a person good at the job • MISS: not hiring someone who would have been good at the job • FALSE ALARM: hiring someone who does a poor job • CORRECT REJECTION: not hiring someone who would have done a poor job

  4. Tests of Cognitive Ability • Verbal ability • Perceptual speed • Memory • Spatial or mechanical ability • Reasoning or analytical ability • Ability to pay attention

  5. Example: Picture Memory Test • Look at the following picture for 30s

  6. How did you do?

  7. Object Displacement Test Observe the following objects for 15s Used for determining ability to find objects, follow maps, remember landmarks

  8. Which one was it? • Car • Leaves • Frog • Horse • Chair • Plane • Computer • Snowman • Truck • Lion

  9. Personality Testing • Usually looking for • Neuroticism • Extroversion • Openness • Agreeableness • conscientiousness

  10. Eysenck Personality Test • Sample questions for “extroversion” • ARE YOU INCLINED TO BE SLOW AND DELIBERATE IN YOUR ACTIONS? • Y?N • DO YOU OFTEN BUY THINGS ON IMPULSE? • Y?N • DO YOU OFTEN CHANGE YOUR INTERESTS? • Y?N • ARE YOU RATHER CAUTIOUS IN NOVEL SITUATIONS? • Y?N

  11. Catell 16PF Test • I am carefree. • Very inaccurate 1 2 3 4 5 Very Accurate • I don’t mind eating alone. • Very inaccurate 1 2 3 4 5 Very Accurate • I take things personally • Very inaccurate 1 2 3 4 5 Very Accurate

  12. Problems with “Personality Tests” • Want to test yourself? • www.similarminds.com

  13. Structured Interviews • Ask all candidates the same questions • “Critical behaviour” interview • Built on eliciting past behaviour • Tell me about a time when you had to facilitate the operation of a team. How did you get involved? What did you do? How did it turn out?"

  14. The MIT “STAR” method for behavioral interview answers • Situation • Task • Action • Results

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