Recruitment & SelectionThe selection methods, ranked by how well they predict performance.Business & ManagementApproximate predictive validity from meta-analyses.MethodPredictsNoteWork sample testHighDoing the actual jobStructured interviewHighSame questions, scoredCognitive ability testHighLegally scrutinised in some placesJob knowledge testModerate-highUnstructured interviewLow-moderateThe most usedYears of experienceLowGraphology, astrologyZeroStill occasionally usedStructuring an interview — same questions, same order, scored againsta rubric — roughly doubles its predictive validity.Recruitment & Selectionlearnposters.com
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A 7-row table: Method · Predicts · Note.

Approximate predictive validity from meta-analyses.

Structuring an interview — same questions, same order, scored against a rubric — roughly doubles its predictive validity.

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What’s on the Recruitment & Selection poster?
A 7-row table: Method · Predicts · Note. Approximate predictive validity from meta-analyses. Work sample test — High — Doing the actual job; Structured interview — High — Same questions, scored; Cognitive ability test — High — Legally scrutinised in some places; Job knowledge test — Moderate-high —; Unstructured interview — Low-moderate — The most used; Years of experience — Low —; Graphology, astrology — Zero — Still occasionally used. Structuring an interview — same questions, same order, scored against a rubric — roughly doubles its predictive validity.
Who is the Recruitment & Selection poster for?
Recruitment & Selection belongs to the Business & Management section rather than to a school year, because business is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning people & organisations can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Recruitment & Selection poster?
Unstructured interviews predict poorly and are used most. That is the central irony of hiring. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Recruitment & Selection belongs on the wall where that business work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Recruitment & Selection?
Team Roles, Change Management and Managing Conflict sit alongside Recruitment & Selection in the Business & Management section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Team RolesChange ManagementManaging Conflict
Is the Recruitment & Selection poster free to download and print?
Yes. Recruitment & Selection downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Business & Management section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Recruitment & Selection poster print at?
Recruitment & Selection is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Recruitment & Selection loses nothing.Printing guide

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