¶ … Telephone Customer Service Representatives
Employment Assessment - Telephone
How do you interpret the reliability results for the clerical test and work sample? Are they favorable enough for the company to consider using them for keeps in selecting job applicants?
A primary objective of evaluating two new methods of assessing candidates for positions as telephone customer service representatives for the Phonemin Company is to improve the caliber of the employment pool from which new hires are selected. The participation of customer service representatives in the telephone ordering system of the company is critical to this endeavor. Moreover, the company will be adding roughly 40 employees to the call center in order to meet the anticipated growth in phone order sales. From this, it is readily apparent that effective means of assessing candidates for the positions of telephone customer service representatives is needed. The reliability figures for the current employee candidate system, which is comprised of a clerical work test and two work samples, are as follows:
For the clerical test, reliability is indicated with a high alpha coefficient of 0.85 and 0.86. This is a reasonably high reliability score. And the test-retest reliability score is even higher, at a very solid 0.92.
The work sample (T) reliability scores show an inter-rater agreement at 88% and 79%, both of which are adequate scores for inter-rater reliability. Higher reliability scores would be preferable. The work sample (C ) inter-rater reliability scores are 81% and 77%. Again, these inter-rater agreement percentages are adequate, but lower than the percentage typically desirable for inter-rater reliability scores.
Overall, the company can be comfortable using these the work samples and the clerical work test as measures to assist with the selection of candidates for positions as telephone order sales customer service representatives. The company should, however, consider undertaking measures to improve the inter-rater reliability scores for the assessments. Typical ways of improving inter-rater agreement are to increase specificity in the rating protocol and to provide additional training and periodic recalibration of raters. This is so because a known weakness of inter-rater reliability is drift, a term used to indicate movement away from the standards set by the rating protocol by the raters over time,...
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