Comments on: When to Use Self-Report and When Not To http://www.senia.com/2007/08/07/when-to-use-self-report-and-when-not-to/ Happiness, Positive Psychology, Coaching, Entrepreneurship, Stories, and the Brain Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:50:00 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Find the right job, use your strengths http://www.senia.com/2007/08/07/when-to-use-self-report-and-when-not-to/comment-page-1/#comment-23994 Find the right job, use your strengths Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:26:38 +0000 http://www.senia.com/2007/08/07/when-to-use-self-report-and-when-not-to/#comment-23994 [...] A couple of articles already this week talking about strengths and work. Penelope Trunk from Brazen Careerist put out a post this week titled To find your best next job, focus on the company not the job. In it she talks about evaluating a position based on the company culture and how your strengths fit into it. She emphasizes the point that in order to do this effectively, you have to perform some self analysis. [Edit: Senia from Positive Psychology breaks this down even further in a follo-up post titled When to Use Self-Report and When Not To] [...] [...] A couple of articles already this week talking about strengths and work. Penelope Trunk from Brazen Careerist put out a post this week titled To find your best next job, focus on the company not the job. In it she talks about evaluating a position based on the company culture and how your strengths fit into it. She emphasizes the point that in order to do this effectively, you have to perform some self analysis. [Edit: Senia from Positive Psychology breaks this down even further in a follo-up post titled When to Use Self-Report and When Not To] [...]

]]> By: Senia http://www.senia.com/2007/08/07/when-to-use-self-report-and-when-not-to/comment-page-1/#comment-23958 Senia Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:29:51 +0000 http://www.senia.com/2007/08/07/when-to-use-self-report-and-when-not-to/#comment-23958 Thanks, Stephanie, for both the book recommendation and the call to read in more detail the Lazar and Tom article. I, too, think this topic is very important. Especially when doing research studies. Thanks, Stephanie, for both the book recommendation and the call to read in more detail the Lazar and Tom article.

I, too, think this topic is very important. Especially when doing research studies.

]]> By: Stephanie http://www.senia.com/2007/08/07/when-to-use-self-report-and-when-not-to/comment-page-1/#comment-23918 Stephanie Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:32:53 +0000 http://www.senia.com/2007/08/07/when-to-use-self-report-and-when-not-to/#comment-23918 Hi, Senia. Thanks for the above. A topic that I think is so important! I think to compare the self-report and objective may be talking about apples and oranges. You cannot measure those hard-wired aptitudes with a self-report test. And if one could be created, it would not have any degree of accuracy. Did you read the article I linked to in my post by Lazar and Tom? I ask because the authors explain very well that the self-report tests are not measuring the same things as the objective tests. The objective aptitude test is only measuring those strengths that become hard-wired in mid-adolescence and do not change over the person's life. The reliabllity and validity have been proven for decades in the JOC labs. To further explain the differences, I highly recommend the book DON'T WASTE YOUR TALENTS. Hi, Senia. Thanks for the above. A topic that I think is so important!

I think to compare the self-report and objective may be talking about apples and oranges. You cannot measure those hard-wired aptitudes with a self-report test. And if one could be created, it would not have any degree of accuracy.

Did you read the article I linked to in my post by Lazar and Tom? I ask because the authors explain very well that the self-report tests are not measuring the same things as the objective tests. The objective aptitude test is only measuring those strengths that become hard-wired in mid-adolescence and do not change over the person’s life. The reliabllity and validity have been proven for decades in the JOC labs.

To further explain the differences, I highly recommend the book DON’T WASTE YOUR TALENTS.

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