Recruiters infer personal traits from job applicants' resumes and use these inferences in evaluating job applicants' employability. No research to date, however, has determined if resume reviewers' inferences of applicants' personality drawn solely from resume biographical data are valid. In the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the applicability of Prochaska and colleagues' “stages of change model,” which has generated substantial support in the therapeutic literature as a useful framework for understanding the dynamics of motivation to change problem behaviors,...