The new tool helps organizations follow
research-driven best practices to transform interviews from a
freeform subjective exercise into a valuable predictor of candidate
performance
ARLINGTON, Va., May 8, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- PDRI by Pearson (FTSE: PSON.L), a workforce
assessment provider that transforms evidence-based insights into
talent management solutions, today announced the launch of a
virtual interview tool for its Palladium assessment platform.
Interviews are ubiquitous in hiring processes, but most are
unstructured, and research shows that unstructured interviews have
low validity and a great potential for bias. And although there are
hundreds of solutions for online interviews already on the market,
most have simply replicated ad-hoc and unstructured offline
processes. With a large-scale analysis of many different research
papers (also known as a meta-analysis) confirming the excellent
predictive power of well-constructed interview
processes1, PDRI recognized the need to bring industrial
and organizational (IO) psychology best practices to the market in
a software solution.
Additionally, at a time when applicants are using generative AI
to prepare for interviews in a way that they may not consider to be
cheating, companies need to take additional steps to properly
capture the predictive power of this method. For example, research
has consistently shown that best practice requires the use of
effective probing, evaluating responses using behaviorally anchored
rating scales, and multiple raters who work to draw a consensus on
their ratings. These measures help interviewers elicit complete
information from candidates, accurately score candidate responses,
and make unbiased hiring decisions. PDRI's new interview tool
makes these best practices simple to follow.
The virtual interview tool
PDRI's virtual interview
tool provides the structure required for effective interviewing,
whether they are conducted live or whether the candidate provides
written or recorded answers to prepared questions. Through its use,
hiring organizations can save time and valuable resources, create a
positive applicant experience, unearth unique insights, and ensure
selection decisions are made in a fair and unbiased manner. The
tool provides an extensive library of consistent sets of structured
interview questions that have helped both Forbes Global 2000
companies and some of the world's largest government agencies
successfully hire candidates for hundreds of jobs.
Additional features include:
- Individual or panel interview
- Best practice interview guides
- Consensus functionality
- Section 508 (a U.S. Federal regulation governing IT
accessibility), FISMA (Federal Information Security Modernization
Act which defines security guidelines and standards for government
information), FedRAMP (the Federal Risk and Authorization
Management Program, which provides a standardized approach to
security and risk assessment for cloud technologies used by federal
agencies) and privacy compliance
Palladium, an assessment platform that provides an
exceptional experience
PDRI's assessment delivery platform,
Palladium, is a fully integrated, online system that makes it
simple to configure a seamless assessment experience for
candidates, with a comprehensive and easy-to-use set of management
tools for companies. The platform includes an administrator web
portal for test and candidate management and reporting, a candidate
scheduling web portal, and a sophisticated web-based assessment
engine. It offers new, modern user interfaces for an enhanced
candidate and administrator experience and can administer any type
of assessment, from multiple choice to sophisticated interactive
simulations to interviews. The platform was designed for easy
end-to-end customization and to meet the most stringent security
standards.
"It's hard to believe that it's been 16 years since Scott Highhouse identified 'Stubborn Reliance on
Intuition and Subjectivity in Employee Selection" as an impediment
to better selection with the unstructured interview as a prime
example of that problem," said Elaine
Pulakos, Ph.D. and CEO of PDRI by Pearson. "We have also
long known structured interviews are among the best predictors of
job performance available. PDRI's new interview tool helps
organizations make accurate and unbiased talent decisions and saves
time and valuable resources."
PDRI's virtual interview tool is now available to private sector
and government clients as a standalone offering or part of a
seamless larger assessment experience. For more information, please
visit https://pdri.com/pd-interview-tool/.
About PDRI by Pearson
Since 1975, PDRI has built a
global reputation of excellence by designing, developing and
implementing high-quality, innovative talent management solutions
that adhere to the highest principles of professional practice.
PDRI's suite of integrated talent management solutions helps
government and commercial clients hire, train, develop, manage and
motivate high-performance organizations.
PDRI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pearson. For more
information visit http://www.pdri.com.
1 Sackett, P. R., Zhang, C., Berry, C. M., &
Lievens, F. (2022). Revisiting meta-analytic estimates of validity
in personnel selection: Addressing systematic overcorrection for
restriction of range. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(11),
2040–2068. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000994
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