Evaluating the 5 Frameworks for a Reliable Personality and Career Test
An HR director reviews the file of a newly terminated executive on Friday afternoon and sees a complete disconnect between the candidate's psychometric scores and their actual output. "The assessment failed," they note in the post-mortem. But psychometric instruments rarely fail to measure what they were designed to measure; the failure happens when practitioners apply a developmental framework to a selection problem. Selecting the right tool requires distinguishing between instruments built for
