The Importance of Representative Design in Judgment Tasks: The Case of Resume Screening
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2002
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1348/09631790260098749
Abstract
A policy capturing study was conducted to determine if résuméprofile 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.
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Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, v. 75, issue 2, p. 163-169
Scholar Commons Citation
Fritzsche, Barbara A. and Brannick, Michael T., "The Importance of Representative Design in Judgment Tasks: The Case of Resume Screening" (2002). Psychology Faculty Publications. 2335.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/2335
