Why validity matters

02 Sep 2012

A quick-reference guide to understanding how validity relates to Hogan’s business model and marketing content.

• The keys to success in business are money and people.
• Personality psychology is about people
• Personality measurement translates insights about people into numbers
• Hogan pioneered the use of valid personality measures to make decisions about people in organizations.
• Accordingly, validity is the cornerstone of Hogan’s continued success in the global assessment market.
• Validity concerns hard evidence, open to public inspection and replication, that Hogan assessments predict non-test outcomes such as job performance.
• Employers want to know the kind of person they will be dealing with at work. Hogan provides answers that are true (valid).