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Do selection tests “really” work better than we think they do?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2024

S. Burak Ozkum*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA

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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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