Thursday 23 July 08:15
- 09:45
Hall: 01 - Basilica
Chair and Presenter:
Truxillo Donald
Division: Division 1: Work and Organizational Psychology
Over the last 30 years, work psychology researchers have come to recognize the value of the job applicant experience in addition to assessment validity. Over this time, the field of applicant reactions and test-taker experience has flourished. For example, we know that applicant reactions can be conceptualized in terms of organizational justice and stress, and that these reactions can affect a number of important outcomes such as organizational attractiveness, job acceptance decisions, and assessment performance. We also know that the broader societal context (e.g., pandemics; McCarthy et al., 2021) can affect reactions.
However, over these 30 years, the selection landscape has changed considerably, with a move from paper assessments to online assessment and the use of a range of new assessment such as asynchronous video interviews (AVIs), gamified assessments, and AI screening. The proposed symposium will present current and ongoing research in the following areas (with primary author/presenter in parentheses):
-The relative fairness of contemporary selection methods (Donald Truxillo)
-The development and validation of the cybersecurity knowledge scale (Andreea Corbeanu)
-The importance of keeping the "human touch" in HR, including recruitment and selection (Talya Bauer)
Selection under pressure: Applicant anxiety in the era of AI and algorithmic hiring (Julie McCarthy)
