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Personality in personnel recruitment

Eva Derous (UGent) and Delphine Van Muylem (UGent)
(2025) CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHOLOGY. 66.
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Over the past decades, personality has emerged as a central construct in recruitment and there is a growing interest in how established models, namely the Big Five and HEXACO, inform recruitment practices. This scoping review synthesizes findings from 46 peer-reviewed studies published between 2020 and 2025, offering a thematic overview of contemporary research in this domain. The review is structured around five focal areas: (a) the predictive validity of personality traits, (b) the inference of personality during recruitment, (c) personality signaling in job advertisements, (d) the role of personality in impression management, and (e) technological innovations, including the integration of artificial intelligence in personality assessment.
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BIG 5, PERFORMANCE, ATTRACTION

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Derous, Eva, and Delphine Van Muylem. “Personality in Personnel Recruitment.” CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 66, 2025, doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102117.
APA
Derous, E., & Van Muylem, D. (2025). Personality in personnel recruitment. CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHOLOGY, 66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102117
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Derous, Eva, and Delphine Van Muylem. 2025. “Personality in Personnel Recruitment.” CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHOLOGY 66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102117.
Chicago author-date (all authors)
Derous, Eva, and Delphine Van Muylem. 2025. “Personality in Personnel Recruitment.” CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHOLOGY 66. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102117.
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Derous E, Van Muylem D. Personality in personnel recruitment. CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHOLOGY. 2025;66.
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E. Derous and D. Van Muylem, “Personality in personnel recruitment,” CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 66, 2025.
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