Testing
Wonderlic Personnel is what kind of test?
What is cognitive ability test?
When an applicant creates a favourable impression of themselves by monitoring an interviewer’s reactions and responding accordingly.
What is impression management?
The threshold at which those scoring at or above the score will pass, and those scoring below will fail.
What is the cut-off score?
This method compares the different types of performance of each worker with every other worker. (Hint: initials are pc).
What is paired comparison?
The concept refers to the proportion of applicants hired for one or more positions.
What is selection ratio?
Knowledge that is derived from experience when learning is not the primary objective.
What is tacit knowledge?
A method of interviewing that involves no constraints on questions asked, no requirements for standardization, and a subjective assessment of the candidate.
What is an unstructured interview?
The simplest way of combining applicant information in the selection process.
What is add the scores together.
When ratings or rankings are made by people rather than based on numbers or hard data.
What are subjective performance measures?
A situation where an employer hires an unfit or unqualified person in an employment situation that puts others at an unreasonable risk of harm.
What is negligent hiring?
Abilities that correspond to near and far vision, speech recognition, and colour discrimination.
What are sensory or perceptual abilities?
A preliminary interview designed to fill gaps left on the candidate’s application form or résumé.
What is a screening or phone interview?
The type of error occurs that when an applicant who is assessed favourably turns out to be a poor choice.
What is a false positive error?
The subcategories of job performance behaviours (4 of them).
What are task, contextual, adaptive, and counterproductive behaviours?
The selection ratio if you had 350 applicants for 50 positions.
What is .14?
This term refers to procedures that require job candidates to produce behaviours related to job performance under controlled conditions and that approximate those found on the job?
What is a work sample?
An approach to interviewing popularized by Microsoft in the 1990s.
What is puzzle interviewing?
Personal beliefs that are held about how people or things function, without objective evidence and often without conscious awareness
What are implicit theories?
Measures of job performance HR managers want to predict using predictors (e.g., tests, applicant screens, interviews, etc. Hint: starts with a c).
What are the criteria?
This application screening method collects information about educational experiences, hobbies, and life experiences.
What are BIBs (biographical application blanks? Or biodata.
This Big Five personality trait has been found to be related to job success across most organizations and occupations?
What is conscientiousness?
Type of structured interview that describes hypothetical on-the-job incidents and asks applicants what they would do.
What is a situational interview?
Making an acceptable or adequate choice rather than the best or optimal choice.
What is satisficing?
The concept that is described as activities or behaviours that are not part of a worker’s formal job description but that remain important for organizational effectiveness (hint: showing enthusiasm).
What is contextual performance? (AKA OCBs)
This form collects minimum qualification information.
What is an application form?