Anyone with responsibility for selection, especially those looking to refresh and improve their understanding of the selection process and increase its effectiveness.

Selection assessment commonly utilises a variety of methods – for example, references, application forms, CVs, biodata, interviews, tests and assessment centres that may involve work simulation, sample exercises, group activities etc. Whatever the methods used, it’s crucial to ensure that assessment is systematic and that the eventual selection decisions are reliable, valid, standardised and free from bias. To do so means adherence to key scientific principles.

This course explores those scientific principles and their application to selection and assessment, and provides a sound basis for the review and validation of existing selection processes.

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• apply scientific principles to radically enhance the accuracy of your selection process
• assess the relative effectiveness of different selection methods
• validate your own selection processes
• undertake local validation studies, and interpret and use the findings

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