Conduct a job analysis and design a selection system.

 Conduct a Job Analysis and Design a Selection System Due 9:30am Friday, March 13th on Compass Points possible: 15 (1 point off per day late for up to a week) 
Overview Job analysis and selection assessment are two important aspects of industrial psychology. For this assignment, you will analyze a job of your choice and design a selection system for that job. You will first be asked to thoroughly research and identify the important aspects of the job by utilizing job analysis methods (e.g., observation/job shadowing, interview, critical incident, etc.) and using any relevant sources, such as O*NET. Next, imagine that you are an I/O consultant and are responsible for designing the selection system to hire new employees for the job. How would you design a selection system based on your job analysis?  
Details In this assignment, the first task is to conduct and write about a job analysis:  • Choose a job, and then collect information on that job via O*NET, relevant articles and books, and an interview or observation of a person with that job. In general, you will be expected to either interview or observe someone doing his/her job to conduct your job analysis (such as a doctor or waiter), or you may use your own experience in a job as a source of information. However, if you cannot observe/interview someone in your chosen job and do not have personal experience (for example, an astronaut), you must use additional sources (articles, books) about the job in order to have a detailed understanding of the tasks and KSAOs. • To begin your paper, identify the job you chose, describe why you chose it, and give a brief overview on how you conducted the job analysis (e.g., interview and O*NET; Section 1 in the Rubric Table below).  • Then, briefly describe the work of that job (Section 2) and identify its critical KSAOs (Section 3). This can include KSAOs explicitly obtained from your research and/or observation, or KSAOs described by the employees if you conduct an interview. Pick out the KSAOs you believe are most important – do not simply copy and paste all the KSAOs from external sources. You should describe at least 1 K, S, A, and O.  
After this, the second task is to develop a selection system: • Explain the methods, scoring, combination, and decision-making processes in your selection system (Section 4). First, describe which selection assessment methods (content/processes) you will include in your selection battery. For example, will you use cognitive ability tests, personality tests, interviews, assessment centers, situational judgment tests, and/or other methods? Next, describe how each method will be scored, and then discuss how you will combine the components of your selection system. For  example, will you use a cut score, multiple hurdles, or score banding? Taking this information into account, how will a staffing decision ultimately be made? (In other words, how will you choose which candidate to hire?) • Finally, you need to justify why your selection system is effective for selecting high performers (Section 5), using information learned in class. For example, what is the validity of your tests, including incremental validity? What are the subgroup differences in test scores (validity-diversity dilemma)? If the selection tools are expensive, are they worth the value? 
You must use AT LEAST THREE (3) SOURCES. These can include PSYC 245 material (text/lecture notes), websites, books, research articles, or other outside material, such as your interview, job observation, or your own personal experience. Document your research with APA-style in-text citations and include a separate references page (Purdue OWL provides APA guides). AT LEAST ONE (1) source must be from OUTSIDE of PSYC245 course materials and O*NET. For example, using the course textbook, O*NET, and an interview with an employee could be 3 acceptable sources. If you cannot conduct an interview or observation and do not have personal experience, an article or book could be your third source. Your paper should be 3-4 pages (excluding the references page) and follow APA Style (double-spaced, 12-point font, Times New Roman, etc.) To encourage comprehensive yet succinct writing, exceeding the 4-page limit will result in point deduction. A title page is not needed. 
The grading rubric is attached to the last page of this document, which includes detailed topics that are expected in the paper. The purpose of the rubric is to help you organize the paper and ensure fair grading. Writing your paper in the order of the given rubric assures that you don’t forget anything and makes it more obvious for grading. Junyeob will grade your paper according to the rubric, and points will be deducted for missing topics or insufficient coverage. If you have any questions about the writing and grading requirements, please direct them to Junyeob.  
Submission The assignment must be submitted on Compass 2g by 9:30AM CST, Friday, March 13th. You will lose 1 point if you turn it in any time after 9:30AM. After Friday, March 13th, you will lose 1 point for each day (24 hour period) that it is late (including weekends). Assignments will not be accepted at all after 9:30am on Friday, March 20th (one week after the assignment due date).  
In order for Compass to process your document, the format of the document must be PDF or Microsoft Word. It is your responsibility to check that the document is properly uploaded and readable in Compass 2g (you can view the uploaded document on Compass 2g after submission). If your paper was impossible to grade due to improper upload, you may receive late points for having to resubmit.