technology, education and training from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist
A number of articles have been appearing in my news feeds lately from representatives of Google talking about hiring interviews. Specifically, Mashable picked up a Q&A exchange posted on Quora in which someone asked: “Is...
On April 15 at 1PM EDT, I will be giving a webinar on gamification for the Human Capital Institute. If you’re interested in what science says about how gamification and videogames can improve HR...
Each month, the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology releases a newsletter describing current events in I/O Psychology. In the February issue, I noticed a brief article on an intriguing little study conducted by...
Recommendation letters are one of the most face valid predictors of academic and job performance; it is certainly intuitive that someone writing about someone else whom they know well should be able to provide...
SUBMISSION DUE DATE: June 2nd, 2014 SPECIAL ISSUE ON CFP: Assessing Human Capabilities in Video Games and Simulations International Journal of Gaming and Computer Mediated Simulations (IJGCMS) Guest Editor: Richard N. Landers INTRODUCTION: In...
When hiring with online tests (a concept called unproctored internet testing [UIT]), one of the biggest worries is that test-takers will cheat. A home computer is just about as “unsecured” a testing environment as...