October 31, 2003

Psychological tests as screening tools gaining in popularity
Posted by deisenhart@bostonworks.com">Douglas Eisenhart at 9:35 AM -

From ABCNews.com, a report on employers' increasing use of psychological tests as a screening tool during the hiring process:

. . .Two-thirds of U.S. employers use some form of job skill testing, with 29 percent using some form of psychological assessment and 13 percent applying personality tests, according to The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, a Bowling Green, Ohio-based organization of psychologists who specialize in applying psychology to the workplace.

"It has grown during the past 10 to 15 years," says Frank Schmidt, professor of human resources at the University of Iowa's Henry B. Tippie College of Business, who attributes the rise to a more competitive economy and more research showing the results of such tests are not biased against any particular demographic group.

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