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Going beyond a validity focus to accommodate megatrends in selection system design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2023

John W. Jones*
Affiliation:
R&D and Consulting, FifthTheory, LLC, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Michael R. Cunningham
Affiliation:
Department of Communication, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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Corresponding author: John W. Jones; Email: Jack.Jones@FifthTheory.Com

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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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