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Kurt Kraiger, Ph.D. Principal Psychologist

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Employers with Benefits: Investing in Talent Through Career Development

By now you’ve heard of the “gig economy,” in which workers and organizations contract for short-term projects – based on the need of the employer and the availability of individual workers. You may...

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Kurt Kraiger, Ph.D. Principal Psychologist Jan 02, 2020

MBTI Personality Test: 3 Reasons Why You Should Consider MBTI

Like thousands of companies across the U.S., you may already be using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or MBTI Personality Test. If you are, you know that it is a personality-based questionnaire that...

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Kurt Kraiger, Ph.D. Principal Psychologist Oct 23, 2019

What Career is Best for Me?

What Career is Best for Me? With summer past the halfway point, about 18 million students are thinking about heading off to, or back to college. For first-year students (and students still...

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Kurt Kraiger, Ph.D. Principal Psychologist Aug 22, 2019

Computer-Assisted Career Guidance Systems: Can You Discover Your Purpose Using a Computer?

How much do you know aboutcomputer-assisted career guidance systems? Talking now to college students, I would tell them “If I can do it, so can you!” Registering for my first term in college (in...

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Kurt Kraiger, Ph.D. Principal Psychologist Jun 13, 2019

Career Assessment Tests: Which to offer students for career decisions?

Career assessment tests play a critical role in helping students and individuals make crucial career choices, such as: What should I major in? What type of work am I suited to do? What...

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Kurt Kraiger, Ph.D. Principal Psychologist May 21, 2019

Means to Live, But No Meaning to Live For: How to Find Meaning in Work

A book you’ve read at least once in your life – and need to read again – is Victor Frankl’sMan’s Search for Meaning. Frankl describes his time in a World War II Nazi death camp, and how, while...

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Kurt Kraiger, Ph.D. Principal Psychologist May 01, 2019

The Predictive Power of Interests

PathwayU uses a combination of student interests and values to guide students to career choices that bring them joy, meaning, and purpose. Student interests are the primary driver in our proprietary...

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Kurt Kraiger, Ph.D. Principal Psychologist Mar 07, 2019

PathwayU vs. Free Career Assessments: You Get What You Pay For

Some individuals might ask themselves, “Why would I pay for PathwayU when there are free career assessments online?”

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Kurt Kraiger, Ph.D. Principal Psychologist Feb 26, 2019

Personality Tests versus Fit-to-Job and Fit-to-Culture Talent Analytics

A recent blog on the Money & Career Cheat SheetWhy Personality Tests Should Not Be Used for Hiring notes that workplace personality testing has become a $500 million dollar industry and makes the...

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Kurt Kraiger, Ph.D. Principal Psychologist Jul 27, 2015

What Makes You Happy?

Gretchen Rubin is a best-selling author of the booksThe HappinessProjectandBetter than Before. She is described as one of the most thought-provoking and influential writers on habits...

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Kurt Kraiger, Ph.D. Principal Psychologist Jun 24, 2015

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