dr. Djurre Holtrop

Bio

I am an organizational researcher and team player with project management experience. I thrive under pressure while aiming for quality and realistic expectations. I have an interest in two areas: 1) creative measurement approaches for personnel recruitment, selection, and assessment and 2) the engagement of volunteer workers. I like to learn new things, explore opportunities with a positive attitude, and value relationships over anything else. 

After working as a personnel selection and assessment consultant for NOA bv I completed my PhD in 2016. In my PhD I studied the assessment of contextualized personality and vocational interests. Directly after completing my PhD I moved to Australia where I worked as a postdoctoral researcher on a large volunteer recruitment and engagement project for four years. Please see my LinkedIn page for a detailed resume.

Expertise

Some key words that define my research area:

- Personnel recruitment and selection

- Personality measurement

- Vocational interests

- Volunteer engagement

- Applicant reactions

- Asynchronous Video Interviews (recent area)

Teaching

- Leadership and Organization (Work and Organizational Psychology Master)

- Diversity and Inclusion at Work (Psychology Undergraduate)

- PhD, MSc, and BSc student supervision

Courses

• Master's Internship Economic Psychology
• Work Psychology
• Bachelor's Thesis: Work and Org. Psych.
• Bachelor's Thesis: Economic Psychology
• Bachelor's Thesis: Social Psychology
• Master's Thesis Work & Organization Psy.
• Master's Thesis Economic Psychology
• Master's Internship Work & Org.Psych.
• Personnel Psychology
• Diversity and Inclusion at Work

Collaboration

Throughout the years I have been fortunate to collaborate with many organizations, such as:

- The Department of Fire and Emergency Services in Western Australia

- Scouts Australia

- Applied university (Hogeschool) Rotterdam, InHolland, and Windesheim

- NOA bv

- Thio Pharma

- Other organizations that are interested in personnel recruitment and selection issues

If you have questions about personnel selection or recruitment, I am always interested in discussing ways to work together. Please feel free to contact me.

Recent publications

1. Solliciteren? Drie, twee, een, actie! - De wetenschap achter eenzijdi…

   Holtrop, D., & Oostrom, J. (2023). Solliciteren? Drie, twee, een, actie! De wetenschap achter eenzijdige video-interviews van sollicitanten. HR Rendement, 25(2). https://www.rendement.nl/werving-en-selectie/verdiepingsartikel/de-wetenschap-achter-eenzijdige-video-interviews-van-sollicitanten.html

2. How asynchronous video interviews are used in practice - A study of a…

   Dunlop, P. D., Holtrop, D., & Wee, S. (2022). How asynchronous video interviews are used in practice: A study of an Australian‐based AVI vendor. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 30(3), 448-455.

3. Setting expectations during volunteer recruitment and the first day e…

   Dunlop, P. D., Holtrop, D., Kragt, D., Gagné, M., Farid, H. M., & Luksyte, A. (2022). Setting expectations during volunteer recruitment and the first day experience: A preregistered experimental test of the met expectations hypothesis. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 31(6), 842-853.

4. Valence, instrumentality, expectancy, and ability as determinants of …

   Dunlop, P. D., Holtrop, D., Ashby, L. M., Bharadwaj, A., & Donovan, J. J. (2022). Valence, instrumentality, expectancy, and ability as determinants of faking, and the effects of faking on criterion-related validity. Journal of Business and Psychology, 37(6), 1215–1233 .

5. The great (volunteer) resignation - An evidence-based strategy for re…

   Forner, V. W., Holtrop, D., Kragt, D., & Johnson, A. (2022). The great (volunteer) resignation: An evidence-based strategy for retaining . (the Volunteering Research Papers Initiative). Volunteering Australia. https://www.volunteeringaustralia.org/wp-content/uploads/VRP_The-great-volunteer-resignation-An-evidence-based-strategy-for-retaining-volunteers.pdf