Talent Assessment: Embracing Innovation and Mitigating Risk in the Digital Age

This book reviews the latest advances in technology-enabled assessment in the workplace. Featuring chapters on key trends and innovations in assessment, the volume covers advances in the foundational science of assessment, technology-related innovations, updates to regulations, principles, and standards, and assessment for development. Including a variety of case studies that describe talent assessment in action and how organizations of varying sizes develop and implement assessment programs, this book is ideal for practitioners and academics in the field.

Tracy Kantrowitz is Chief Product Officer at Personnel Decisions Research Institute (PDRI) where she leads assessment product development and implementation programs. She has published in leading journals on assessment science and has led large-scale assessment programs for U.S Office of Personnel Management, Air Force, Army, NASA, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, members of the intelligence community, and Google. A SIOP Fellow, she recently served as its Professional Practice Officer. She has been awarded the Distinguished Early Career Contributions - Practice and M. Scott Myers Award for applied research in the workplace, and serves on the editorial board of Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice.

Douglas H. Reynolds is Executive Vice President of Innovations and Technology at Development Dimensions International (DDI), where his team develops and implements software-based assessment and learning products for Fortune 500 companies. Reynolds has served as an expert witness regarding personnel selection practices, and he has published and presented frequently on topics related to the intersection of I-O psychology and technology. He co-edited Next Generation Technology-Enhanced Assessment, and the Handbook of Workplace Assessment, and co-authored Online Recruiting and Selection. He is a Past President of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2012-2013) and recipient of SIOP's Distinguished Professional Contributions Award.

John Scott is Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder of APTMetrics. Dr. Scott has more than 30 years of experience designing and implementing talent management and assessment systems across a variety of global, high-stakes settings. He is a Fellow of both the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the American Psychological Association (APA). He is a recipient of SIOP's Distinguished Professional Contributions and Distinguished Service Awards, as well as its Humanitarian Award. Scott is a SIOP Foundation Board Trustee and previously served as SIOP's Senior Representative to the United Nations. He also served as an APA Council representative and is the past editor-in-chief of SIOP's premier journal, Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice. Scott has co-edited or co-authored 4 books and 45 chapters and articles in the field of organizational psychology.