Values assessment for personnel selection: comparing job applicants to non-applicants

Multidisciplinary assessment of applicants for residential accommodation

Fifty of 62 applicants for residential accommodation underwent assessment at a geriatric day hospital. Twenty-five were suitable, 11 were suitable following rehabilitation and 14 were unsuitable for placement in residential accommodation. Around 35% of all applicants were not assessed. Seventy-nine per cent of assessed applicants, without dementia, either were unsure of how their application ha...

Selection criteria for emergency medicine residency applicants.

OBJECTIVES To determine the criteria used by emergency medicine (EM) residency selection committees to select their residents, to determine whether there is a consensus among residency programs, to inform programs of areas of possible inconsistency, and to better educate applicants pursuing careers in EM. METHODS A questionnaire consisting of 20 items based on the current Electronic Residency...

Interactive Acquisition of Terminology Describing Job Applicants in Job Advertisements

There are several computer based job classification systems for the labour domain and the purpose of which mainly is to enable search and to collect statistics. The systems typically encode information about the job, the workplace , the employer, the salary, necessary education and experience, duration, hours, need for a driving licence etc. But actual job advertisements, for example such that ...

Health assessment of applicants for nurse training.

Personnel Psychology 1998,51 Personality Characteristics of Job Applicants and Success in Screening Interviews

Although there is substantial evidence that personality constructs are valid predictors of job performance, there is less systematic evidence of how personality characteristics relate to success in the interviewing process. Measures of the Big Five personality markers were obtained from a sample of graduating college seniors (n = 83) who were engaged in a job search. At a later time these stude...