About the Author

Lawrence R. O’Leary, Ph. D.

Dr. O’Leary has spent over twenty-five years of his professional career, developing and implementing selection and promotional processes within Police Departments across the country. Most of these included assessment centers, emergency scenes and interviews. He developed the exercises, trained the assessors from dozens of Police Departments in the country. This experience has involved training fire service officers from Birmingham, AB, Little Rock, Los Angeles, Miami, FL, St. Louis, MO and Washington D.C. plus many others. As a result of creating and implementing these assessment centers and training the assessors how to observe and evaluate thousands of candidates for promotion, he created a training kit that will prepare the candidate for promotion within the fire service. During that time he has collected the types of behaviors that generate positive scores in assessment centers and the types of behavior by candidates that create poor scores. He wants to put these experiences at your disposal in the form of a book that describes the process and how you can do your best in your assessment center. He also includes in this kit a series of actual police assessment center exercises for you to practice before you attend your promotional assessment center.