Pre-Employment Screening
Sampson’s Public Safety Pre-Employment Psychological Assessment are useful in predicting a candidate’s ability to function in a public safety position by focusing on:
“I have known Dr. Steve Sampson for over 20 years. For 18 of those years he has served as the LaGrange Police Department’s psychologist for pre-employment
consultation and critical incident de-briefings; he has consistently provided a
valuable service to our agency and to our officers. Dr. Sampson has my complete
confidence and my highest recommendation.”
- Chief Lou Deckmar, Retired – LaGrange Police Department
Former President – International Association Chiefs of Police (IACP)
Pre-Employment Psychological Assessment Options
We offer agencies two options for Pre-Employment Psychological Assessments:
1. Psychological Test only (includes an electronic copy of the report – the test is administered at your location by your agency). Our staff will mail you all the relevant testing materials to get you started. This test takes the candidate between 2 - 3 hours to complete. You will then scan or email the answer sheets to our office, and we will email you the report results within 24 – 48 business hours.
2. Psychological Test and Clinical Interview (includes psychological test administered in our Loganville office by our staff and a clinical interview). A pre-approval letter is sent within 24-hours of the appointment and a complete written report is sent within 14 business days.
What the Clinical Interview and/or Test Results Tell You
Sampson’s evaluation program will screen out applicants and recommend “no hire” for several reasons:
- Intelligence
- Personality Traits
- Mental Stability
- Social/Emotional Judgment
“I have known Dr. Steve Sampson for over 20 years. For 18 of those years he has served as the LaGrange Police Department’s psychologist for pre-employment
consultation and critical incident de-briefings; he has consistently provided a
valuable service to our agency and to our officers. Dr. Sampson has my complete
confidence and my highest recommendation.”
- Chief Lou Deckmar, Retired – LaGrange Police Department
Former President – International Association Chiefs of Police (IACP)
Pre-Employment Psychological Assessment Options
We offer agencies two options for Pre-Employment Psychological Assessments:
1. Psychological Test only (includes an electronic copy of the report – the test is administered at your location by your agency). Our staff will mail you all the relevant testing materials to get you started. This test takes the candidate between 2 - 3 hours to complete. You will then scan or email the answer sheets to our office, and we will email you the report results within 24 – 48 business hours.
2. Psychological Test and Clinical Interview (includes psychological test administered in our Loganville office by our staff and a clinical interview). A pre-approval letter is sent within 24-hours of the appointment and a complete written report is sent within 14 business days.
What the Clinical Interview and/or Test Results Tell You
Sampson’s evaluation program will screen out applicants and recommend “no hire” for several reasons:
- Insufficient Intelligence: The candidate will have extreme difficulty learning procedures and will be less likely to use good judgment.
- Highly Exploitive, Destructive or Manipulative Personality Traits:These individuals are poorly suited for many jobs, but especially for public safety work where they would have substantial discretionary control over others.
- Self-Destructive Tendencies: The candidate is likely to display irrational thinking, poor judgment and recklessness and are therefore eliminated.
- Social Intelligence: The candidate’s ability to manage social encounters with others in a constructive manner.
- Emotional Intelligence: Those individuals suffering from an emotional illness that may endanger themselves or society and are clearly poor choices for public safety work.