When we say that SciRec is all about the science of recruitment, we truly mean it. Our approach combines the insights from decades of scholarly research on employee recruitment, assessment, and selection.
The academic literature has long established that simply assessing certain psychological dimensions (Schmidt, 2016; Schmidt & Hunter, 1998; Sackett et al., 2022), such as General Mental Ability (a measure of intelligence) and Conscientiousness (a personality trait), predict employee performance very effectively. The technical way of saying this is that assessing just a few core traits can explain a great deal of variance in employee performance.
This is why SciRec has developed brief and valid proprietary assessments of the most predictive candidate traits for you to use to choose your next employees.
We recommend page 65 of Schmidt 2016 for a good one-page summary of the validity of various selection methods.
Links
- (Schmidt, 2016) The Validity and Utility of Selection Methods in Personnel Psychology: Practical and Theoretical Implications of 100 Years...
- (Schmidt & Hunter, 1998) The validity and utility of selection methods in personnel psychology: Practical and theoretical implications of 85 years of research findings.
- (Sackett et al., 2022) Revisiting meta-analytic estimates of validity in personnel Revisiting meta-analytic estimates of validity in personnel selection: Addressing systematic overcorrection for restriction of range