Psychometric tests - An effective method of matching people to jobs?

Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisation, grade: 53%=2,7, Edinburgh Napier University, course: Work Psychology, language: English, abstract: “Fitting square pegs into square holes and round pegs into round holes.” (Lorna McKinnon, freelance journalist) The history of test development goes back to 400 BC when Hippocrates attempted to define four basic temper...