HR Tests - Recruitment, assessment, and personnel selection

" A person-centric work psychology will look at the world through the eyes of the worker. It will take work in the raw, all the sigh...

The March 2011 issue of Industrial and Organizational Psychology contains two excellent focal articles. One, which I plan on writing about...

Time to catch up on the research: First, Blickle, et al. show that political skill ( "the capacity to understand others in working li...

The concept of a website that matches applicant skills to specific recruitments is...shall we say...not new. What is new is a website that ...

It's journal season--this time let's take a look at the Spring 2011 issue of Personnel Psychology : First up, Derue, et al. with an ...

Personnel psychologists often make a distinction between factors that indicate a person can do a particular task and those that indicate th...

The March 2011 issue of the International Journal of Selection and Assessment is out, and it's a doozie. Check it out: - Beaty, et al....

Here are some research articles from the last couple months: Grand et al.'s study showed that adding a job-relevant context to test item...

Remember when tests were fun? Neither do I. Tests and assessments have a long history of being about as popular as the dentist. Starting i...

There's a new blog on the block, and this time it's the folks over at Select International and the name of their blog is Select Per...

Back in 2007 I began a project through this website to collect survey data from passers-by on words found in job ads. You may have seen a l...

Yes, my goal was to create a blog post title using words no longer than four letters. Anyway, for those non- SIOP 'ers out there, or SIO...

The January issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology is out with some great content, so let's jump right in. First up, an intriguing ...

Yesterday, in a unanimous 8-0 decision*, the U.S. Supreme Court handed federal employers a victory when they upheld a background check proce...

Before I begin this rant...err...post, let's create a fantasy world. No, not the kind with elves and magic (maybe in a future post). The...

The Call for Proposals for the 2011 IPAC Conference is now open until January 31st. The Program Committee is seeking proposals for symposia...

Researchers make a lot of choices: What to study. How to measure. What statistic(s) to use. Researchers conducting meta-analyses (essent...

"Here you go, way too fast don't slow down you're gonna crash you should watch -- watch your stay here don't look out you...

The research on personality inventories continues unabated with two new studies. The first, by Taylor et al. in the December 2010 JOOP , fou...

Here's a very quick round-up of several recent pieces of research: Bott et al. on how individual differences and motivation impact scor...