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Personnel Selection Methods

In this activity, you will read a case about a small business. The company needs to hire a new employee and needs advice on what tools to use to select and hire the best candidate for the job. Review the section in your text on the types of employment tests that can be used for employee selection.

Read the case below and answer the questions that follow.

You are a consultant who specializes in job candidate evaluation and employee selection. A moving company is seeking your advice about the appropriate selection measures to evaluate candidates for the position of driver$/$mover$.$ When people are moving from one home to another, they contact the moving company to take care of relocating their belongings. The people responsible for the move are the driver$/$movers$.$ Applicants for this job must be able to drive long hours and lift and carry heavy objects.

Because driving a truck is an essential function of the job, applicants must not only be physically capable of driving, but must also have an impeccable driving record. Driving a truck is a dangerous safety hazard if the applicant is not a good driver. Also, the job description requires that applicants for a driver$/$mover position with the moving company must have the physical ability necessary to move heavy furniture safely and without damage. An applicant unable to perform this task would be a risk to the employer, as well as to the safety of co$-$workers, clients, and the clients' belongings.

The company wants to make sure that the structured interview they have designed is "valid" $-$ you recommend that they can establish validity by ensuring the questions asked accurately reflect the tasks and KSAOs required for the Job. What type of validity is this?