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Applicants’ reactions to selection processes clearly affect their decisions about whether to pursue job opportunities in a company. Equally important, these early experiences serve as an organization’s first steps in a socialization process that will continue for several months after an applicant is eventually hired. At the heart of applicants’ concerns is the desire to be treated fairly. Applicants judge fairness by the content of the measure used to select people, the administration of the process, and the outcomes of the process.
Content of selection measures
Applicants prefer a process that involves them in activities that have obvious relevance to the job opening. Work samples and simulations usually seem more relevant to applicants than cognitive paper-and-pencil-tests and handwriting analysis, for example , and perhaps for this reason, applicants consider them to be fairer. Applicants react negatively to poorly conducted interview. Offensive or discriminatory question obviously send negative messages, but so do question that appear to be superficial or not clearly related to the job