Instructions

You are on a management team that is hiring one new employee. There are four remaining candidates. All four had strong interviews and would be a good fit with the work team. Review their files (information in the table below) and respond to the following questions.

	Candidate A	Candidate B	Candidate C	Candidate D
Standardized cognitive test scores	Top 5%	Top 10%	Top 20%	Top 50%
GPA	3.95	3.00	3.97	3.14
Extraversion	Top 40% (slightly extraverted)	Bottom 30% (introverted)	Top 50% (neither extravert nor introvert)	Top 10% (highly extraverted)
Agreeableness (how well they get along with others)	Top 30%	Top 50%	Top 20%	Top 5%
Openness to experience (intellectual curiosity)	Top 5%	Top 20%	Top 50%	Top 40%
Work experience	No similar work experience	3 years similar work experience	2 years similar volunteer experience	No similar work experience

Respond to these questions - be specific in your reasoning. Consider how different factors relate to performance (typical and maximum) and other variables, such as turnover.

1. Who would you choose for a generic job (someone who could be good at anything)? Why?

2. Who would you choose for a sales job? Why?

3. Who would you choose for a job that you are interested in, that you have held in the past, or that you currently hold? Why? (Explain the job in your answer too).