When selecting and hiring new employees, you need to have the best information possible to improve the
results of your decisions. Pages 167-169 in the text discusses and explains the concepts and importance of
reliability and validity in your selection process.
1a. Explain (in your own words) how and why the reliability of all selection data is so important to the selection
decision (remember to discuss only reliability and not validity).
1b. Give an example of how you can make your selection applications, interviews, or tests more reliable.
- Then in your own words, explain specifically how a “behavioral” interview improves the validity of selection
interviews. (validity – not reliability).Be sure to include the important details of the S.T.A.R. technique (pages
203-206) in your explanation.