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Predicting Employee Performance Using Text Data From Resumes, Joshua D. Weaver
Predicting Employee Performance Using Text Data From Resumes, Joshua D. Weaver
Industrial-Organizational Psychology Dissertations
Text analytics using term frequency was proposed as an extension of biodata for predicting job performance and addressing criticisms of biodata and predictor methods—that they do not identify the constructs they are measuring or their predictive elements. Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count software was used to analyze and sort text into validated categories. Prolific Academic was used to recruit full-time workers who provided a copy of their resume and were assessed on impression management (IM), cognitive ability, and job performance. Predictive analyses used resumes with 100+ words (n = 667), whereas correlational analyses used the full sample (N …