Experts Available to Discuss Role of Personality Tests in the Hiring Process.ExpertSource: TOPIC: The pressure is growing for managers to make the right choices when it comes to new hires, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an article by the Baltimore Sun Baltimore Sun Daily newspaper published in Baltimore, Md., U.S. It was begun as a four-page penny tabloid in 1837 by Arunah Shepherdson Abell, a journeyman printer from Rhode Island. . The wrong decision can cut productivity, lower morale and cost the company big bucks to find a replacement for departing employees. In addition to reviewing resumes, checking references and conducting interviews, some companies are using personality tests to gauge how well a potential hire will fit into their corporate culture. Experts say personality tests can be a key factor when deciding between job candidates who have equal skills and background. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Rick Slayton has developed Slayton Search Partners' strategic partnership business and leads searches in the industrial, consumer and financial industries. With 15 years of experience in executive search, Rick has successfully served Fortune 100 clients in the transportation, industrial and consumer products industries, as well as the aerospace, electronics and metals sectors. He has placed executives in general management, manufacturing operations Manufacturing operations concern the operation of a facility, as opposed to maintenance, supply and distribution, health, and safety, emergency response, human resources, security, information technology and other infrastructural support organizations. , sales and marketing, engineering, finance, and information technology positions. Rick has proven himself to be one of the top supply chain search professionals in the industry. Dr. Janice Presser can discuss the challenges business leaders face in getting the right person into the right job; how to identify and nurture high potentials; and the ethical dilemmas business leaders face as they attempt to satisfy their multiple constituencies. She describes how Role-Based Assessment accurately predicts potential employees' workplace behavior, providing the tools that leaders need to create results-driven teams. As CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of The Gabriel Institute, the originator of Role-Based Assessment, she can comment on the new definition of job fit - a two-way process that makes or breaks employee engagement. Her expertise includes human capital valuation and improvement; qualitative measurement and business-critical metrics, and she can contribute to the discussion on the unintended consequences For the "Law of unintended consequences", see Unintended consequence Unintended Consequences is a novel by author John Ross, first published in 1996 by Accurate Press. of recent legislation in the HR arena. The Gabriel Institute is a professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. company, formed in 2001 and headquartered in Philadelphia that serves organizations of all sizes, in all industries and market sectors, with tools and services that help them evaluate and improve their human capital and organizational culture  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . . These include assessment of leadership for succession planning Management Succession Planning In organizational development, succession planning is the process of identifying and preparing suitable employees through mentoring, training and job rotation, to replace key players — such as the chief executive officer (CEO) — and restructuring; web-based screening and selection for hiring; workforce improvement initiatives including training and coaching; and human resource strategic development solutions. TGI's value proposition provides customers with measurable return on investment based on the metrics businesses need to satisfy both financial and compliance requirements. TGI's corporate values - trust, respect and faith - drive our single minded purpose of helping our customers manage, measure and maximize their human capital. Anna Song is skilled in both quantitative and qualitative research Qualitative research Traditional analysis of firm-specific prospects for future earnings. It may be based on data collected by the analysts, there is no formal quantitative framework used to generate projections. techniques. She adds considerable value in emotive segmentation projects and has taken a very active role in the development of Anderson Analytics AA-Projective techniques. Anna's two primary interests are 1) methodological techniques in measuring personality characteristics "at-a-distance" and 2) investigating how personality and culturally specific factors influence the decision-making process. Her research experience includes work in the field of political psychology with the Summer Institute for Political Psychology at Stanford, the study of the history of psychology as a Mountjoy Research Fellow at the Archives for the History of American Psychology, and work with Thematic Apperception Test thematic apperception test: see psychological tests. samples for the Henry A. Murray Research Center (now joined the Harvard-MIT Data Center and Institute of Quantitative Social Science). She has a Ph.D. in Personality and Social Psychology from the University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, and was established as the University Farm in 1905. where she also received her M.A. She received her B.A. in psychology and political science from the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. , Ann Arbor, specializing in psychological factors in leadership, decision-making, and conflict negotiation. ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. 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