Optimizing Hiring with Personality Assessments: Balancing Predictive Validity and Integrity

Personality measures can be an effective way of decreasing the length of the application screening and hiring process, especially if there are hundreds of applicants (Griffith, 2021). In combination with cognitive function tests, personality measures can increase predictive validity that an applicant has the ability, aptitude, ethics, and conscientiousness (Thomas & Scroggins, 2006). While this methodology is undoubtedly something that would be desirable for employers, there are caveats to using such measures. Unfortunately, fa