This psychological suitability assessment is only one part of the selection process for the position you have applied for. The agency that referred you for assessment has given you an offer of employment conditioned, in part, on the satisfactory completion of a job-related psychological assessment. Your prospective employer may consider the psychologist’s recommendation and the data you provide during this evaluation together with other information such as the background or a polygraph, if administered, to determine whether you meet the suitability standards of the agency.
This Evaluation Assesses Job Relevant Traits And Attributes, And Emotional Stability.
This psychological assessment will consist of standardized written psychological tests, in-depth personal history questionnaires, an examination of any collateral or third-party information made available by the hiring agency (or in the case of medical records, by an authorization from you), as well as an interview with a licensed psychologist with experience screening public safety officers. Note that collateral or third-party information reviewed by the psychologist may include reports from the background investigation (or polygraph examination if administered), you authorized the hiring agency to conduct, and any prior psychological evaluations or records of psychological treatment you have authorized us to obtain and review for the purpose of the current assessment.
One objective of this psychological evaluation is to assess personality traits and attributes. The psychological tests, personal history questionnaires and psychological interview will probe public and private aspects of your life. These inquiries are necessary to adequately assess whether you satisfy the suitability requirements of the position you have been conditionally offered.
A second objective of this assessment is to rule out the presence of job relevant psychopathology (although it is not designed or intended to diagnose mental disorders). Please note that some of the questions will be medical in nature such as past or present psychological/psychiatric treatment. This employment assessment represents the psychologist’s professional opinion about your suitability for the position you have applied for, at the specific agency you have applied to. It is not a statement about your suitability for this same job class with different departments or for a different employment position with the same agency.
If at any time you wish to ask about the relevance of any questions in this process, please let the psychologist know and she/he will explain why the requested information is needed.
Remember, as with any job application, you have the right to terminate the process at any time.
Limits Of Confidentiality And Report Of Findings And Conclusions.
Although your prospective employer is the client of this firm and the interviewing psychologist, and you are not, the psychologist is aware of the duty to conduct this evaluation with fairness, impartiality, and objectivity. Because the psychologist is conducting this evaluation at the request of your prospective employer and for reasons having nothing to do with treatment or health care, you do not have doctor-patient or psychotherapist/patient privilege in your communications with the psychologist. The hiring agency may require a report of pertinent findings about your behavioral history, psychological attributes, and will require a recommendation concerning your suitability for this position following the completion of the assessment. Reports to your prospective employer necessarily will contain private information, but we will make a good faith effort to restrict the disclosure of private information to the minimum necessary to satisfy the purpose of the examination and to support our findings, conclusions, and recommendations. If our findings, conclusions, opinions, or recommendations are challenged in an adjudicative forum, we may make full disclosure of all information as may be necessary or required by law.
Note that if you are hired and at some later date become the subject of a mandated fitness for duty evaluation, worker’s compensation evaluation or other medical evaluation, upon written request from our client (the agency) we will provide the data from this application assessment to a qualified professional. Additionally, if at a later date you apply to this agency again, or to some other public safety employer who is our client, we will request that you authorize us to use the current application information or any archival information contained in earlier assessments of you by our firm for the purpose of verifying the consistency of your self-reported personal history and comparing changes in your testing over time.
Exceptions to the confidentiality of this assessment information may be required by law for reasons which include, but are not limited to, allegations of child abuse, a threat of serious harm to self or others, or in the event of a subpoena. Finally, in the event you sign a waiver permitting access to this information as part of your application to a public safety employer, we may release the data to the psychologist contracted by that agency.
The hiring agency will maintain any written report provided to it by me in a confidential medical file separate from other personnel information and that the information should be made available only to persons who have a bona fide need to know the information included in the report. Nevertheless, by signing the authorization attached hereto as Exhibit A and authorizing the release of this information to the hiring agency, there is the possibility that the hiring agency could redisclose this information. By signing the authorization you will expressly release me from any liability for the disclosure.
You agree that your electronic signature is the legal equivalent of your manual signature on this document. You consent to be legally bound by your electronic signature. You further agree that your use of a keypad, mouse or other device to select an item, button, icon or similar act/action constitutes your signature (hereafter referred to as "E-Signature"), acceptance and agreement as if actually signed by you in writing. You also agree that no certification authority or other third-party verification is necessary to validate your E-signature and that the lack of such certification or third-party verification will not in any way affect the enforceability of your E-Signature.