Title

The Importance Of Representative Design In Judgment Tasks: The Case Of Résumé Screening

Abstract

A policy capturing study was conducted to determine if résumé profile judgments are generalizable to judgments of actual résumés. Forty recruiters judged 60 résumés or corresponding profiles on interview suitability. When profiles were judged, more variance in suitability judgments was accounted for, there was higher agreement among recruiters, the judgments were more favourable, and cue usage was different than when actual résumés were judged. Thus, inferences based on profiles were not generalizable to actual résumés. The importance of representative design and limitations of policy capturing for understanding résumé screening judgments were discussed.

Publication Date

6-1-2002

Publication Title

Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology

Volume

75

Issue

2

Number of Pages

163-169

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1348/09631790260098749

Socpus ID

0141942102 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0141942102

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