Time to stop misusing psychometric tests

Guidelines designed to prevent employers misusing psychometric tests have been produced by the CIPD and others, but they have not been proactively enforced and they fail to differentiate between good and bad testing methods, argues Stephen Overell.

  • Testing the patience of a saint   By Stephen Overell, writing in Personnel Today.

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