Evidence of validity of psychological assessments carried out in selection processes
"personnel selection"; "psychological assessment"; "job performance predictors"; "public safety"; "armed forces".
Institutions that have collaborators aligned with the organizational values and objectives and with a psychological profile consistent with what is expected for the position, can reflect on achieving better results and an environment with satisfied and high-quality workers performance. However, for this, one cannot save efforts for the planning and execution of an adequate selection process. That said, this thesis aims to investigate the evidence of validity of selection processes carried out in the context of public safety and the armed forces, focusing, in particular, on the psychological assessments of these processes. Therefore, the aim is to understand whether the constructs analyzed in the psychological assessments at admission predict future job performance. In order to achieve this objective, partnerships will be made with public safety institutions and the armed forces to analyze secondary data from processes provided by them. Based on previous literature, general intelligence is expected to be one of the most significant predictors of job performance, followed by personality traits “conscientiousness” and “emotional stability”.