This review of the literature provides strong confirmation that companies’ use of psychological tests has been growing over time. Up to the mid-1980s surveys of test usage, and indeed of recruitment and selection methods more generally, were apt to point to littlechange. Sneath et al, reporting in 1976, concluded that there was no indication that test usage had increased since the 1960s or early 1970s, ‘and possibly test usage may even have declined’. Gill, writing in 1980 on management selection, reported ‘a high degree of
satisfaction, at times bordering on complacency, with traditional methods of recruitment and selection which, as the research indicates, have not changed in any significant way in the past 10 years’