Applicant Testing: Given these considerations, which testing system do you believe may be the most legitimate?
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Your supervisor has asked you to address the following in a document that will be sent to other managers within the organization.
What is needed:
legal and ethical considerations of major types of tests as follows:
1. cognitive abilities
2. motor and physical abilities
3. personality and interests
4. achievement tests
Given these considerations, which testing system do you believe may be the most legitimate?
REMEMBER to compare and contrast testing methods specifically to demonstrate how the methodologies you have not selected may have more negative ethical and legal consequences than the one you have selected.
In your answer also discuss ways in which advancements in technology have helped to make the applicant testing and selection process more efficient and effective.
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