In this new approach, profiles are matched rather than key words or concepts. Measurement Approaches Measurement approaches utilize actual scores or ratings of job requirements as the basis for screening candidates. Candidates are rank ordered or banded based on combining these scores in some weighted or un-weighted fashion. Reliability and Screening Reliability is very relevant to both matching and measurement screening approaches. In both cases, a value is generated that is used to screen candidates.
Reliability refers to the quality of that value.
It addresses the question of how much error is present in the value generated. Reliability improves as we increase the number of relevant items that are combined to generate a value. If you think about it, this makes intuitive sense. If we wanted to measure math ability, we could give all candidates one math problem. If we were to ask two problems, we would be able to sort the group into four groups and we would have more confidence that the group that answered both questions correctly possessed higher math ability.