Study seeks to determine whether verbal and arithmetic skills measures were related to indices of job behavior for a hardcore'' unemployed sample. (Author)

Changes in views of personnel selection research include changing opinions about choosing predictors and criteria, methods of data collection, and methods of evaluating selection procedures. Distinctions are made between job-relatedness, inferred from validity coefficients based on job-related criteria, and the valid measurement of a trait,…

Findings of this study indicate that an employee's estimate of his/her future tenure with a company is a more reliable indication of actual tenure than job-satisfaction or biographical factors. (Author/RW)

Examined whether resume determinateness (lack of ambiguity) is related to positive employer evaluations. Male and female personnel professionals rated resumes in which sex, age, marital status, and academic achievement information were varied. Ambiguous information did not consistently distort evaluation. (RC)

Tested hypotheses that congruence between internal need states and external environments drives organizational choice process and that those attracted to particular organizations are more homogeneous than general applicant pool. Evaluated college students (N=211) on 14 needs, then indicated job preferences based on two videotaped interviews.…