Deborah Whetzel

About Deborah Whetzel

Areas of expertise include job analysis, leadership competency models, performance…

Experience

1. Personnel Selection and Development Program Manager

   Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO)

   May 2008 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Manager of HumRRO’s Personnel Selection and Development (PSD) Program Area, which includes a staff of psychometricians and industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologists. Applies psychological principles and practice to the research, development, and validation of operational assessment systems; conducts occupational analyses in support of personnel programs such as selection and succession planning; and consults on implementation issues such as the interpretation and use of assessment results and the legal defensibility of personnel practices.• Direct project to develop test questions for the Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) and a variety of specialist tests for the Department of State. Also working on Assessment Center (AC) exercises to enable their delivery in a virtual environment.• Directed a project for the Transportation Security Administration which included conducting a detailed job analysis of all Transportation Security Officer (TSO) positions not only to update the essential tasks and identify the critical competencies for the original three positions, but also to establish them for the new positions in the TSO job series. • Managed a pilot test of the Internet version of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), known as the iCAT in an academic setting. • Directed two projects for the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) to: a) develop and equate alternate forms of their cognitive ability tests and b) develop tests for System Operator/Power Dispatcher jobs. Tests include situational judgment and logic-based reasoning.• Completed a meta-analysis of predictors of clerical performance for EEI. This work involved updating Pearlman, Schmidt, and Hunter’s (1980) seminal work and expanding the predictor space to include personality and computer-administered tests. Results were published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Education

• George Mason University

  M.A., Industrial/Organizational Psychology

  1981 — 1983

• The George Washington University

  Ph.D., Industrial Psychology

  1988 — 1991

Skills

• Literature Reviews
• Workshop Facilitation
• Validation
• 360 Feedback
• Performance Appraisal
• Statistics
• Survey Research
• Data Collection
• Psychology
• Job Analysis
• Qualitative Research
• Employee Selection
• Interviews
• Program Evaluation
• Employee Surveys
• Research Design
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Selection
• Training
• Talent Acquisition
• Talent Management
• Multivariate Statistics
• Focus Groups
• Training Delivery
• Assessment Centers
• Human Capital
• Testing
• Workforce Planning
• Program Management
• Personnel Selection
• Analysis
• Employee Engagement
• Organizational Behavior
• Recruiting
• Organizational Development
• Performance Management
• Technology Needs Analysis
• Career Development
• Executive Coaching
• Talent Assessment