The Assessment Center Handbook for Police and Fire Personnel

This handbook outlines the use of the assessment center method for the selection of candidates for higher appointments in police and fire departments. It describes the advantages of assessment centers; reasons why people don't like them; typical exercises; assessment center design and administration; the selection and training of assessors; candidate evaluation, scoring, and feedback; candidate preparation strategies; common blunders; and ensuring candidate satisfaction with assessment center methods. This edition expands on concepts and principles and has edited and reformatted chapters. It has new sections on the critical emergency medical services problem and the public education exercise, as well as a new chapter on best practices in assessment center exercises, which provides new examples of how candidates can achieve superior performance in different kinds of assessment exercises. It includes a new section on the use of modern technology. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) Read more