Monday, 7 April 2008
Psycology as a recruiting device
Even though I believe that Psycology as a "pseudo-science" could be useful to address a wide variety of phenomena, I kind of look down on its use as a recruiting device. If you think about how it is loosely applied at job interviews, you will understand what I mean. How can a test that was "dubiously" proved to "statistically" work in a certain environment/culture, be taken to decide who should be taken on/rejected for a certain position? In my view, the statistical nature of those tests make them questionable in that you are deciding how appropiate someone is by just resorting to "findings" that work on average.
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I reckon these concepts have come about solely so that HR (human resources) departments can justify their saleries. If I was a manager looking for an emplyee I'd want to meet the person face to face - not leave the decision to some random recruitment guy and a stupid test!
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