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You CAN Handle the Truth: Reducing Applicants’ Response Distortion in Pre-employment Assessments

Topic: You CAN Handle the Truth: Reducing Applicants’ Response Distortion in Pre-employment Assessments Date: August 24, 2010 at 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET

Description

Have you ever been impressed with a job applicant’s test results or personality profile, only to find out that the person you saw on paper was nothing like the person you saw on the job? How did that happen? Could that person have “faked” their way through your assessments?

Many organizations are streamlining their application process – delivering many of their pre-employment assessments “remotely” or on-line, without an organizational representative present to administer their tests. Unfortunately, while streamlining this way can save organizations time and money during the application process, it increases the chances that some applicants may be less honest and forthcoming in the way they respond to questions on the assessments.

During this session we’ll discuss the concept of applicant “response distortion” as applied to jobs in several settings (including retail sales and customer service). We’ll talk about the ways to reduce an applicant’s likelihood to “fake” their way through assessments, particularly for those delivered remotely, so that the information we use to make hiring decisions is as accurate as possible.

Finally, we’ll share the results of research on different techniques used to reduce response distortion in several organizations.

Who Should Participate

Recruiters, Managers, Directors, VPs, etc., responsible for HR, Staffing, and Talent Acquisition.
Those interested in learning about the ways we can reduce faking on job assessments.
Business leaders.

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What You Will Learn

The different ways applicants can distort their responses to items on pre-employment assessments
How administering assessments on-line, in an unproctored setting, can increase the likelihood for inaccurate information
Techniques for reducing an applicant’s likelihood to try to fake their way through assessments.
The impact these techniques can have on applicant test scores.

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The focus of DeGarmo Group’s research, product development, and service delivery is the application of psychology in the talent acquisition and development process. We provide our clients with web-based staffing and training solutions to improve organizational functioning and profitability. We limit our service provision to these areas to ensure that our focus aligns with our core organizational strengths. Our practice-guided-by-science orientation requires that our professional services be based on an active and ongoing research program, as well as adherence to mainstream scientific and professional standards. DeGarmo Group employs a team of consultants with Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in Industrial and Organizational psychology who contribute to, and draw upon, the latest scientific research to deliver innovative and compelling solutions for our clients.

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		Kathleen Melcher DeGarmo Group View Profile

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