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Why Is It So Hard to Apply Professional Selection Methods in Business Practice?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Beata Chorągwicka  and
Barbara Janta
Beata Chorągwicka*
Affiliation:
University of Santiago de Compostela
Barbara Janta
Affiliation:
RAND Europe
*
E-mail: beciach@usc.es or bjanta@rand.com
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , September 2008 , pp. 355 - 358
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Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Campus Sur, 15872 Santiago, Spain or RAND Europe, Westbrook Centre, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 1YG, United Kingdom

The first author of the article is a Spanish Ministry of Education and Science grant holder for PhD students (FPU, AP2005-3807)

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