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APPENDIX B: Cognitive Skills and Job Performance
Pages 37-38

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... Furthermore, cognitive skills and abilities are more important for job success than many other attributes of job performance. For example, Hunter and Hunter summarized hundreds of studies and showed that basic cognitive and psychomotor abilities were nearly three times more important than the amount of experience or class rank/grade point average for predicting job success, and four times more important than behavior in employment interviews or scores on measures of interest.
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... The Validity Generalization of Telephone Ability Battery Tests. New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Employment Systems, 1983.


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