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Assignment:

(What are some of the pros and cons of collecting biographical information? After reading the chapter, what way would you lean towards if you were a business owner and were looking to recruit new employees? This is the original question for the post don't answer this one. )

Biographical information gathered by filling out job applications can include information about educational attainment, job skills, personal characteristics, and work history. Pros on collecting biographical information are that it can help predict job performance, it can have better predictability than personality tests, and it can be resistant to dishonesty. Some cons about using biographical inventories are that while these inventories can predict job performance they sometimes do not have any link to job requirements. In addition, some individuals might find these biographical information questions to be an invasion of privacy, and they often have a limited generalizability because they are created for the specific job or organization (Spector, 2021).

If I was a business owner and was looking to recruit new employees, it would depend what type of work I was looking to recruit for. If I was looking to recruit someone for a customer service job, I would most likely conduct a structured interview. Structured interviews include preplanned questions that are asked to every applicant and have shown to be good predictors of job performance (Spector, 2021). I also feel as this is a good way to have a conversation with someone to assess their social skills. If I was looking to recruit someone to work completing specific hands on tasks, I would most likely use work samples. A work sample assess how well a person can complete tasks related to the job. Work samples have a close correspondence between the assessment situation and the actual job which make work samples have good job performance predictability (Spector, 2021).