Abstract
<p>This paper examines the importance of psychological testing in personnel selection. Selection is a process of hiring the job applicant who will be most successful in meeting job demands. Poor hiring can be costly to an organisation, thus, they rely on different techniques of selection, testing is the most commonly used. An attempt is made to understand the history of testing, use of testing in selection procedure, and various kinds of test used with main emphasis on the cognitive ability and personality testing. It also attempts to critically analyse some of the issues associated with testing, with emphasis on the validity and utility of tests. The issue of cultural fairness, biases and discrimination has also been explored.</p>
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