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This 6-page paper covers various topics pertaining to the assessment, testing and screening of security guards for employment. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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pre-employment assessment protocol for screening applicants who would be hired as security guards. There probably is no better way to develop a protocol or assessment that the study recruitment
techniques used by Pinkertons Securities and Investigations Services. In developing such protocol, Pinkerton first conducts extensive background checks on its applicants and
administers pre-employment testing to determine experience, skills and integrity (Smith, 1993). The Pinkerton also incorporates to assessment products -- the Stanton Survey (which measures individual attitude toward honesty and
willingness to comply with corporate rules) and IntelliView, a structured interview session that requires the respondent to answer about 100 questions asked by a computerized voice system (Smith, 1993).
Applicants respond to each question by pushing one number for guests and another number for no (Smith, 1993). The IntelliView results are not scored -- rather, they are used to
help recruiters assessed areas for follow-up with the applicants during the face-to-face interview (Smith, 1993). The results of this has been recruitment of quality people for security services
-- as well as the ability of paper tend to offer its screening and assessment programs to clients (Smith, 1993). Any
protocol testing for security guards would also have to differ from similar types of testing for law enforcement officers. For one thing, security guards cannot respond to violent crime,
and terror gate suspects, solve murders or negotiate the release of hostages (Carlson, 1995). They can however assessed police by helping to maintain order and locations where police forces are
either nonexistent or spotty (Carlson, 1995). In addition, security guards need to be flexible -- meaning any kind of assessment protocol would have to measure adaptability, stress level and
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