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      Prof. Dr. Benedikt Hell

      Activities at FHNW

      Role

      Professor for personnel psychology with main focus on psychological assessment at the FHNW School of Applied Psychology

      Areas of Expertise

      • Research and lectures in psychological assessment
      • Execution of projects from both the business environment as well as society
      • Applied research and applicable transfer
      • Conception and supervision of products for advanced Studies

      Lecturing and Research

      Lecturer for Bachelor, Master and Advanced Studies (CAS, MAS).

      We finance our research with third party funding. Our partners count businesses, public institutions, foundations as well as research funding institutions.

      Research on the fundamentals of psychological assessment:

      • Fairness in psychological assessments (fairness of capability tests, gender equality in the area of career interests)
      • Research on work-relevant constructs (career interests, creativity, curiosity, intelligence, career-and work-relevant personality traits, values)
      • Studies on validity (individual studies as well as meta-analyses)

      Development of psychological assessment methods:

      • Personality-, interest- and intelligence tests
      • Studies– and career-counselling tests
      • Interviews for various target groups
      • Tests targeting business founders, trainees and other target groups
      • Development of innovative psychological assessment methods (for example, Situational Judgement Tests, Short-Cut Methodologies)

      Self-assessments (please see: www.self-assessment.ch) and methodologies developed by our research group:

      Projects

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      Profile

      Benedikt Hell has worked as a researcher, lecturer and consultant specializing in psychological assessment since 1999. Studied psychology at the universities of Bielefeld and Bonn, 2003 doctorate in Hohenheim under Prof. Dr. Heinz Schuler, since 2010 lecturer and since 2012 professor of personnel psychology at the School of Applied Psychology FHNW.

      Extensive information can be found in the following two networks:

      • Institute

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      FHNW School of Applied Psychology

      FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
      School of Applied Psychology

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      CH - 4600 Olten

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