How Do I Get a Job, What Are They Looking For? Personnel Selection and Assessment

Abstract

Personnel selection and assessment (PSA) is an applied field of Work and Organizational Psychology used by organizations to decide which of the applicants for a job is the most appropriate for a particular position. This chapter is organized into four main sections. The first section starts with the ‘systems view’ of recruitment and selection, highlighting stages in the process. The second section describes what job performance is and the structure of job performance. The third section reviews the most relevant PSA procedures according to the criterion-oriented validity. The fourth section summarizes the research on the applicant perceptions and reactions. Finally, we suggest two conclusions. First, PSA is capable of predicting over 60% of job performance variance based on individual differences. Second, future rises in the explained variance will be probably based on the development of new assessment technologies and, particularly, on the development of new theoretical approaches for occupational situations.

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