Exam 6: Employee Selection

The higher the overall validity of a selection procedure, the greater the chances of hiring individuals who will be the better performers.

"Tell me more about your experiences on your last job" is an example of a nondirective interview question.

What is one of the most important processes in establishing validity?

Organization Omega is hiring 20 new front-line employees. The company is using an interview that involves three people taking turns asking questions and then pooling their scores of the responses. What is this type of interview called?

Video interviews have the advantages of speed and cost-effectiveness.

When would an applicant be rejected during the selection procedure?

Application forms should always require relevant dates, including date of birth.

Which of the following terms refers to the degree to which inferences drawn from interviews, test scores, and other selection procedures are supported by evidence (such as good job performance)?

What does a selection ratio of .9 mean?

Credit checks are the most common form of reference check.

Criterion-related validity is the extent to which a selection tool predicts or correlates with important elements of work behaviour.

In general, the criterion-related method of assessing selection test validity is preferred over other methods because it is based on empirical data.

Six months ago, Organization A used a new selection system to hire 100 front-line staff members. With six months of performance data in hand, Organization A is interested in determining if its new selection system predicts performance on the job. What is the best way to describe this process?

Situational interviews ask applicants how they would respond, while behavioural description interviews ask applicants how they did respond.

Data obtained from nondirective interviews are difficult to validate.