Via Scoop.it – personnel psychology

With 13.9 million Americans seeking work, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, grabbing an employer’s attention quickly and leaving a positive impressio…
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Via Scoop.it – personnel psychology

It’s best to be honest and have a good, solid reason for not moving on in your career.
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Via Scoop.it – Greek HR

Looking for a job can be discouraging and embarrassing, if not downright humiliating. You can be rejected without reason, asked questions you’d rather not answer, or be judged based on criteria you don’t understand.
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Via Scoop.it – personnel psychology

While we know that modern selection procedures such as ability tests and structured interviews are successful in predicting job performance, it’s much less clear how they pull off those predictions. The occupational psychology process – and thus our belief system of how things work – is essentially a) identify what the job needs b) distil this to measurable dimensions c) assess performance on your dimensions. But a recent review article by Martin Kleinman and colleagues suggests that in some cases, we may largely be assessing something else: the “ability to identify criteria”.
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Via Scoop.it – personnel psychology

The most important fact that you need to know about resistance to change is that it’s normal. Your employees are not weird and they don’t purposefully make every change difficult.
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