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A reply to commentaries on “Revisiting the design of selection systems in light of new findings regarding the validity of widely used predictors”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2023

Paul R. Sackett*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Christopher M. Berry
Affiliation:
Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Filip Lievens
Affiliation:
Singapore Management University, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore
Charlene Zhang
Affiliation:
Amazon, Alexandria, VA, USA
*
Corresponding author: Paul R. Sackett; Email: psackett@umn.edu

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