Personnel selection methods in a private security organization: a sociologist’s view

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of professional selection of personnel in private security organizations. This problem is relevant, since a significant (and even excessive) number of employees are engaged in security activities in the Russian economy, and their professionalism is a subject of discussion both among managers and personnel officers, and among ordinary people. The article briefly examines the system of professional selection and substantiates the stages of the research carried out by the author in accordance with the order of one of the security fiLms management, which provides physical protection of sensitive facilities. The article briefly examines the system of professional selection and substantiates the stages of the research carried out by the author in accordance with the order of the management of one of the security firms, which provides physical protection of sensitive facilities. An expert-stating method of constructing a psychogram is described. It provides for: expert assessment of personnel to determine successful and unsuccessful employees; selection of methods and techniques of psychodiagnostics and testing of successful and unsuccessful employees; identification of statistically significant differences in test results between successful and unsuccessful employees and determination of professionally important qualities. Difficulties and limitations in the implementation of these research procedures are analyzed in detail. As a result of the study, a psychological portrait of a successful security guard is presented, carrying out physical protection of sensitive objects. This portrait includes a general description of the factors of success, as well as a description of specific professionally important qualities.