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Some New (and Old) Suggestions for Improving Personnel Selection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Nathan R. Kuncel
Nathan R. Kuncel*
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University of Minnesota
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E-mail: kunce001@umn.edu , Address: Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , September 2008 , pp. 343 - 346
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2008 

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Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota

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