Mark Cook is a U.S. Navy veteran and has been a business owner, landscaper, carpenter, baker, data center technician, burner technician, building engineer, operations manager, service manager, houseparent to over sixty-five children at two Christian children's homes, youth leader, husband, father, grandfather, and now an author. He is currently traveling the country with his beautiful bride of eighteen-plus years, their two teenage daughters, and their two cats and two dogs in their thirty-eight-foot travel trailer. He hopes you enjoy this story.

This is a fully updated edition of Personnel Selection, a seminal text on the psychometric approach to personnel selection by a noted expert in the field.
* Focuses on cutting-edge topics including the influence of social networking sites, adverse impact, age differences and stereotypes, distribution of work performance, and the problems of selecting new employees using research based on incumbent employees
* Questions established beliefs in the field, especially issues that have been characterized as "not a problem," such as differential validity, over-reliance on self-report, and "faking good"
* Contains expanded discussion of research and practice in the US and internationally, while maintaining the definitive coverage of UK and European selection approaches
* Provides comprehensive yet accessible information for professionals and students, as well as helpful pedagogical tools (technical and statistical boxes, simplified figures and tables, research agenda boxes, key point summaries, and key references)