How people interact in a social gathering is often different from how they react and interact within a group, as part of a team within a work environment. Some people can become aggressive under pressure, where others simply glide along, get the work done, but apparently show no effects. Clearly, it is important to find out before you recruit somebody, what they are likely to do. This is particularly important for high pressure, and high profile executive selections or members of a close-knit team. Just one person can seriously damage a team's productivity if there is unhealthy conflict based on a personality clash.

Organizational psychology training seeks to teach you how to establish a person's "work personality", aptitude, knowledge, and skills for a particular role. You might learn about job profiling, job analysis, psychometric testing, psychometric test design, individual and group motivation, organizational structure and design, law, and interviewing techniques. There are a number of different fields you could specialize in with organizational psychology training. These include efficiency (time and motion studies,) personnel selection, training, leadership selection, or coaching and professional development. You may find a role within a large organization, or you might decide to go freelance, or involve yourself with a specialist recruitment company. You could become an executive coach, career change consultant, legislative compliance officer, labor relations, or process improvement consultant. Large organizations might employ you in specialist roles such as human resources executive, or manager of selection and training.