PERSONNEL-SELECTION FROM THE SUBJECTS VIE W - ON THE APPLICANT-ORIENTED STRUCTURING OF ASSESSMENT SITUATIONS

The following study deals with how applicants experience and evaluate a large companies combined personnel selection device, which consists of psychological tests and an employment interview. For this purpose, it was first investigated how candidates experience different aspects of the selection procedure. From this, measures for improving the appl icants' situation during the selection procedure were derived, the eff ectiveness of which was examined in a second investigation. The measur es were found to result in an improvement in the applicants' mood in t he selecting situations and in a more positive evaluation of the selec tion process with regard to a number of aspects. This demonstrates tha t how selection situations are experienced and evaluated depends nor o nly on the diagnostic instruments employed, bur also upon the circumst ances accompanying their application. A further result was that the em ployment interview is more positively experienced and judged than the psychological rests. Further objective of the study was to identify pe rsonal characteristics which influence experiencing and evaluating dia gnostic situations. Above all a dependency showed of how participants experience and evaluate the selection procedure in relation to their s uccess and to their intelligence. Successful or more intelligent appli cants were in a better mood and judged the selection situations more p ositively than unsuccessful or less intelligent applicants.