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placement and classification  

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  • Selection is a personnel decision whereby an organization decides whether to hire individuals using each person's score on a single assessment, such as a test or interview, or a single predicted performance score based on a composite of multiple assessments. Using this single score to assign each individual to one of multiple jobs or assignments is referred to as placement. [Source: Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Placement and Classification]

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