“…AC designers and assessors are required to hold expertise relevant to their positions. The views of subject matter experts (SMEs) are widely used as a source of research evidence in applied psychology (Dries, Pepermans, & Carlier, 2008;Flores, Zheng, Rau, & Thomas, 2012;Francis-Smythe, Haase, Thomas, & Steele, 2013;Jones & Born, 2008;Motowidlo & Beier, 2010;Sebastian, Ramos, Stumbo, McGrath, & Fairbrother, 2014;Woehrmann, Deller, & Wang, 2014). Although AC assessees are not organizational SMEs in the usual sense of the term, they have relevant experience of ACs from a distinctive perspective, and their perceptions may impact in several ways on organizations using ACs, including the likelihood that they will accept a job offer and their first impression of the organization.…”