ABSTRACT
This chapter continues our discussion of different kinds of hiring procedures. We discuss personality and interest measures, application blanks, and biographical data. The goals of the chapter are (a) to review the history of the development of personality and interest measurement and show the theory lying behind their use today as parts of a modern personnel selection battery; (b) to introduce the reader to the development and use of a form of selection procedures, the biographical information blank (BIB), that consistently reveals superior predictive validity in practice; and (c) to introduce the reader to the idea of person-environment fit as a conceptual base for understanding why personality and interest measurement reveal the validity they do.
