Rekryterares uppfattningar om användning av arbetspsykologiska test vid urval av ny personal

Sammanfattning: The aim of this study was to investigate recruiters thoughts about using work psychological testing for personnel selection. The sample consisted of recruiters with good knowledge of recruitment and active within public organizations. Data was collected using interviews and was analyzed with thematic analysis. The result indicates that the recruiters consider traditional selection methods to function well and that work psychological tests are a good complement. It further indicates that the recruiters cannot rely on the test result. The result also indicates that the recruiters do not consider intelligence to be a good predictor for good work performance in general recruiting situations. A conclusion is that the recruiters view on intelligence as a predictor contributes to a limited use of work psychological testing. Another conclusion is that the use of work psychological testing, as a complement, set recruiters in situations where they rather rely on selection methods with significantly lower predictive performance.