Patent ID: 7080057

Claim:
An apparatus for assisting in determining suitability of an individual for employment by an employer, the apparatus comprising: an electronic data interrogator operable to present a first set of a plurality of questions to the individual; an electronic answer capturer operable to electronically store answers by the individual to at least a selected plurality of the first set of questions presented to the individual; an electronic predictor responsive to the stored answers and operable to predict at least one post-hire outcome for at least one job performance criterion if the individual were to be employed by the employer, the predictor providing a prediction of the at least one post-hire outcome for the at least one job performance criterion based upon correlations of the stored answers with answers to sets of questions by other individuals for which post-hire information has been collected; and an electronic results provider providing an output indicative of the at least one post-hire outcome for the at least one job performance criterion to assist in determining suitability of the individual for employment by the employer; wherein the first set of the plurality of questions to the individual has been subjected to performance-driven item rotation comprising at least one validation cycle during which at least one of the questions has been retained, at least one former question has been dropped, and at least one experimental question has been inserted.