Resources

Professional Organizations Relevant to Testing and HR Professionals

• Personnel Testing Council-Northern California
• • An organization of Northern California personnel assessment and selection professionals.

• • Personnel Testing Council-Metropolitan Washington
• • The PTCMW Community and its members seek to advance the science and practice of I/O psychology and related fields through high-value professional growth and networking opportunities.

 

• Cooperative Organization for the Development of Employee Selection Procedures 
• • CODESP has the ideal web-based talent assessment tools to fit your needs.

• • Western Region Intergovernmental Personnel Assessment Council
• • WRIPAC provides public agency assessment staff in the Western United States a unique forum for professional networking, membership expertise and recruitment, selection, and development resources in a collaborative, innovative, friendly, and fun environment.

• • Society for Personality Assessment
• The SPA is dedicated to the development of methods of personality assessment, the advancement of research on their effectiveness, the exchange of ideas about the theory and practice of assessment and the promotion of the applied practice of personality assessment.

• International Personnel Assessment Council
• IPAC provides members and others in the field with easily accessed and varied opportunities to learn, share, experience, and teach state-of-the-art recruitment and merit-based assessment practices.

• Association for Test Publishers
• Promoting and preserving the general welfare of testing and its value to society in all its forms and uses since 1992.

 

• • Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• SIOP is the premier membership organization for those practicing and teaching I-O psychology.

 

• Southern California Public Management Association Human Resources
• The Southern California Chapter of the International Public Management Association for Human Resources (IPMA-HR).

• • Society for Human Resources Management
• Founded in 1948, SHRM is the world’s largest HR membership organization devoted to human resource management.

• • International Public Management Association-Human Resources
  • IPMA HR is the leading public sector human resource organization in the world. We represent the interests of human resource professionals at all levels and strive to promote excellence in HR management.

Related Organizations and Government Agencies

• • US Office of Personnel Management
• OPM works in several broad categories to recruit, retain and honor a world-class workforce for the American people.

 

• • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.

• Personnel Commissioners Association of Southern California
• Our organization continues to outreach and educate commissioners, directors, staff and the public on the advantages of the “merit system.”