A psychologist’s take on world events, life, happiness and the human condition
Recruitment is the process used to find and select people to fill jobs. To a Corporate Psychologist, however, the word means much more.
Many Corporate Psychologists have special training in conducting job interviews and other selection processes. This elicits much more comprehensive and precise information about job applicants than an ordinary interview. A few also specialise in the science of psychometrics – measuring human traits and predicting behaviour.
Articles on Shrink Wrap that refer to psychological recruitment methods or technologies, or recruitment in general, are shown below.
What’s your disapproval personality type? If I told you it’s possible to learn to tolerate criticism and disapproval, would you want to?
A fascinating exposition of resilience, from the habit of people-pleasing to psychopathy in global politics.
Should you use special body language and other techniques to impress at interviews?
Winning at job interviews is actually much simpler than that. Here’s how.
ABC Radio’s Eliza Borrello called me yesterday for a quick interview about why some people lie on their resumes.
Listen to our conversation on the ABC’s AM show here, or read the web article. Read more…
My Halloween special is about corporate evil, from bad behaviour of political groups to large scale organisational corruption and abuse.
I have a theory that evil concentrates over time due to a natural quirk in human nature. Fortunately, this also means that unhealthy institutional cultures can be prevented or cured.
I was on the radio today, discussing the citizenship test with presenter Thomas Oriti. Does it really predict anything about a person’s values? Is it useful?
We also talked about the use of psychometrics in the business world, and how that kind of testing differs.
If the US presidency were a regular job, Psychologists would draw up selection criteria and candidates would be screened for stability and competence.
How might the world look if more leaders were earnest public servants instead of unstable egoists and sociopaths?