Personnel Assessment and Decisions Volume 3 Issue 1 Article 3 2017 Using O*NET to Develop a Framework of Job Characteristics to Potentially Improve the Predictive Validity of Personality Measures Jeremy Burrus Professional Examination Service,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/pad Part of the Human Resources Management Commons, Industrial and Organizational Psychology Commons, and the Other Psychology Commons Recommended Citation Burrus, Jeremy and Way, Jason D. (2017) "Using O*NET to Develop a Framework of Job Characteristics to Potentially Improve the Predictive Validity of Personality Measures," Personnel Assessment and Decisions: Vol. 3 : Iss. 1 , Article 3. DOI: 10.25035/pad.2017.003 Available at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/pad/vol3/iss1/3 This Research Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Personnel Assessment and Decisions by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@BGSU. RESEARCH ARTICLES PERSONNEL ASSESSMENT AND DECISIONS USING O*NET to DEVELOP A FRAMEWORK of JOB CHARActeRISTICS to PoteNTIALLY IMPROVE THE PREDICTIVE VALIDITY of PERSONALITY MEASURES Jeremy Burrus1 and Jason D. Way2 1. Professional Examination Service 2. ACT, Inc. ABSTRACT It has long been theorized that we can improve prediction of job-related behavior from measures of personality by identifying job characteristics that allow for the expression of individual differences (e.g., Mischel, 1968). Using O*NET data, the KEYWORDS current paper develops a framework for job characteristics that could improve the extent to which we can predict behavior from personality.