Professor Paul Squires

Paul Squires

Clinical Professor of Psychology

Research Interests & Experience

My career and research interests have focused on assessment validation and measurement of individuals and organizations. I now focus on machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) applications in industrial and organizational psychology. More specifically, I work with an NYU-Tandon team that is exploring knowledge workers, career paths, and job taxonomies using ML and NLP. ML and NLP offer the possibility of replacing traditional job taxonomies and competency models with AI driven systems. The research will provide solutions that are critical to a wide range of human capital applications.

Teaching Interests & Experience

I teach IO graduate students research methods, applied statistics, psychometrics, and machine learning applications. Students learn statistical packages such as SPSS, and machine learning tools such as R and Python. I have taught core IO psychology courses such as job analysis, learning and motivation theory, judgment and decision making, and tests and measurement. I have supervised student research and provided them with research opportunities. I have supervised students in completion of their Master’s and PhD theses.

Professional Affiliations

Member – Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP)

Education

  • Fordham University Ph.D. Educational Psychology & Measurement
  • Pace University M.S. School Psychology
  • Manhattan College B.A. Psychology

Teaching Experience

  • 2013 - 2019 New York University - IO Psychology (Present) New York University - Tandon - Research Scientist & Adjunct Professor
  • 2008 – 2013 Fairleigh Dickinson University – Adjunct Professor
  • 1991 – 2004 Stevens Institute of Technology – Adjunct Professor

Work Experience

I have provided IO Psychology consulting services to many firms including AT&T, PwC, Merrill Lynch, US Department of Labor, US Department of Defense, KPMG, Avon, State of North Carolina, Ingersoll-Rand, New York Stock Exchange, Eaton Corporation, and GlaxoSmithKline.

Publications, Papers, & Invited Presentations



Squires, Paul (1987) A comparison of two methods to set a passing score. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, NY, NY

Squires, Paul & Ross, R. (1990) Literacy requirements for customer service jobs. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Squires, Paul, Torkel, SJ, Smither, JW, and Ingate, MR (1991) Validity and generalizability of a role-play test to select telemarketing representatives. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 64, 37 – 47.

Squires, Paul and Adler, Seymour (1998) Performance appraisal: Linking appraisals to individual development and training. In State of the Art Methods for Performance Management, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco.

Squires, Paul (2002) Developing skill standards built upon high performance work organizations. Paper presented at the Annual Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Orlando, FL.

Squires, Paul & Lionetti, Sandra (2003) Web-based delivery of certification assessments using item banks. Paper presented at the Annual Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Toronto, Canada.

Squires, Paul (2004) The use of Rasch models for analyzing job analysis data. Paper presented at the Annual Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Chicago, IL

Squires, Paul (2005) Measuring Human Capital www.HR.com

Squires, Paul and Neary, Douglas (2006) When Business as Usual Intersects with Disruptive Technology: How Organizations Can Optimize their Readiness for RFID. RFID Product News, June Issue.

Squires, Paul (2007) National Retail Federation RFID Survey Research Report. NRF Publications.

Measuring Human Capital (June 2008), NYC Metro Chapter of Applied Psychology.

Rasch vs IRT Modeling (April 2009), SIOP National Meeting, Panel Discussion, Los Angeles, CA

Dominic, Peter, Squires, Paul, & Cervone, Daniel (2010) Back to persons: On social-cognition processes and products of leadership development experiences. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 3(1), 33-37.

Squires, Paul, Harris, Rob, & Mintz, Marshall (2010) Validity and reliability of the Mental Skills Assessment. Paper presented at the Annual Association of Applied Sports Psychology conference in Providence, R.I.

Squires, Paul (2010) The role of on-the-job and informal development in performance management. In J. W. Smither & M. London (Eds.), Performance management: Putting research into practice. Jossey-Bass, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY.

Financial Wellness at Work (May 2012), Employee Benefits Conference, Scottsdale, AZ

Applying Analytics to the Drivers & Outcomes of Engagement (April 2014), NYU Tandon School of Engineering Conference, Human Capital Innovations, Technology & Analytics, Brooklyn, NY

Introduction to Text Mining (December 2014), NYU Tandon School of Engineering Conference, Preparing for the New World of People Analytics & Big Data, Brooklyn, NY

Ross, Kathleen T. & Squires, Paul (2015) Tone at the Top: Leadership as the Foundation of Organizational Health and Wellness. People Strategy Journal, 38(1), 36-41

Squires, P., Kaufman, H.G., Togelius, J., & Caramillo, C.M. (2017) A comparative sequence analysis of career paths among knowledge workers in a multinational bank. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data. Boston, MA. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8258354/media

Career Matching & Tracking: New approaches to job classification (May 2018), NYU Tandon School of Engineering Conference, New Directions in Job Classification, Brooklyn, NY