Expert approach in evaluating specialists

Article presents the results of a comparative analysis of expert evaluations and self-evaluations of professionally important personality traits of a specialist, the ratio of personality type indicators, decision-making and decisiveness of the individual. The paper highlights the advantage of the expert approach, areas of its use, features of application at evaluating experts' potential, a level of their professionalism. Approaches to expert evaluation of the firm's staff are evaluated, namely modelling of business situations, use of a specially organized evaluation procedure, creation of reference «images of the subject», special requirements for training and selection of evaluation experts, including the use of independent evaluation centers. The author analyzes the current state of the problems of the expert approach in assessing the components of the specialist's personality structure (professionally important qualities, personality traits and personal qualities), the professionalization of the individual as a whole. Differences in expert evaluation and self-evaluation of professionally important personality qualities are theoretically substantiated and empirically confirmed. The relevance of the study is conditioned by the need for practice in the selection, recruiting, adaptation of personnel, in improving the efficiency of professionals' resources and potential, in the theoretical and methodological generalization of research expertise, in developing technological procedures and methods of expert evaluation. A representative sample of respondents aged 25–47 with a total number of 73 people was formed, two groups of people were allocated – the first group used expert evaluation (31 people), the second one – self-evaluation of personality's professionally important qualities, decisiveness and decision-making (42 people). The results of the diagnosis were obtained using a set of methods: «Decision-making questionnaire» by G. Eizenko; «Multidimensional scales of decisiveness» by O. Sannikov, «Personal factors of decision-making» by T. Kornilova, «Indicator of personality's social type» by D. Cairsey (expert version), «Test-questionnaire of qualitative indicators of risk propensity» by O. Sannikova, S. Bykova, «Questionnaire on the study of the impulsivity level» by V. Losenkov. The description of interrelations of expert evaluations and self-evaluations of the traits of individual's decision-making is presented. The differences between expert evaluation and self-evaluation of personality traits and personal qualities of a professional are shown. The direction of developing the expert approach for solving the tasks of professional counseling is allocated – an evaluation and forecasting the parameters of a choice and decision-making at persons with different structure of personality indicators.