Joanie Connell interviews Dr. Kasey Harboe (GHE) Guentert and Mollie Berke, authors of The Hiring Handbook and experts in industrial-organizational psychology. They have conducted thousands of hiring assessments while working for both distinguished consulting firms and Fortune 500 companies. Kasey is currently an Executive Consultant with APTMetrics and Mollie is a Managing Director at Modern Executive Solutions. In this podcast, they describe how people in companies can improve their hiring practices using evidence-based techniques from I-O psychology and how their book explains this in plain English.

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Kasey Harboe Guentert, Ph.D. is an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist with a 25+ year track record of making hiring, performance, and leadership decisions smarter, fairer, and more human. She’s worked everywhere from small consulting teams to global giants like Airbnb, Meta, Korn Ferry, and SHL—always with one goal: build talent systems that actually improve company performance. Kasey’s led groundbreaking work in job profiling, selection, performance management, and the impact of AI on the future of work. Her work has shaped how companies across healthcare, tech, finance, and beyond find and grow great people. Now a consultant with APTMetrics and the author of The Hiring Handbook, Kasey brings a sharp mind, deep experience, and a bit of humor to keep things interesting. She is also the Chair of the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology’s Committee for the Advancement of Professional Ethics.

Mollie Berke is an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist with 15 years of experience in leadership assessment and development. She has conducted 1000+ assessments and has spent her career helping organizations—from startups to Fortune 500s—make better talent decisions through leadership assessment, coaching emerging leaders, and designing hiring processes that actually work. Mollie’s work has spanned leading firms, from competency modeling and leadership assessment and development at Korn Ferry, to building and implementing structured interviewing at scale at Meta, to her current role as Managing Director at Modern Executive Solutions, where she designs and delivers leadership assessment and executive coaching for senior executives. Now the co-author of The Hiring Handbook, Mollie brings a practical, evidence-based guide to HR professionals, managers, and small business owners who are looking to hire with confidence. Mollie holds a BS in Psychology from Florida State University and a MA in Industrial Organizational Psychology from New York University. She has research expertise in decision-making and the impact of uncertainty and stress on cognitive ability.