ABSTRACT
Highly skilled people are essential for the airlines to operate efficiently, safely, and with satisfied customers. In a military context, the organization will also have other objectives, but skilled workers are still as important. For the individual employee, it is important to have a job that is sufficiently challenging, where the individual is appreciated and rewarded in relation to how well he or she performs the job. To achieve this, it is important to have both a good selection system and an effective training program for candidates who have been selected. A successful selection process will lead to lower dropout rates during training and an increase in the number of students completing the program. In addition, a well-designed selection system will, in the long term, contribute to a more effective and resilient organization; however, this claim may be harder to document compared to lowered dropout rates. Ideally, the selection of personnel should be based on methods that we know work for this purpose. This means that empirical evidence shows that the methods can tell us something about how the person will be able to perform the job or training he or she seeks.
