Oliver Brust
Associate at the Chair of Methods in Empirical Social Research
NameMr Dipl.-Psych. Oliver Brust
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Bürogebäude Falkenbrunnen, FAL 212 Chemnitzer Straße 46a
01187 Dresden
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Office hours:
- Tuesday:
- 17:00 - 20:00
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Regular office hours:
Tuesday, 7. DS (18:30-20:00 pm)
Office hours Statistics consulting service for graduate students:
Consulting service for students who are currently working on an empirical Bachelor's/Master's/Diplom thesis in Sociology
Wednesday, 7. DS (18:30-20:00 pm)
Focal area of research: Social networking skills
Social contacts are of great importance not only in private but also in professional life. In recent years, for example, about 40% of the graduates of Technische Universität Dresden found their first job after graduation through contacts they had made during their studies, e.g. through internships. In sociology and psychology, these social networking skills have received particular attention under terms such as 'social capital' (sociology) or 'social networking' (psychology) since the 1970s. The focus of the analysis is on contacts in the professional context, which are intended to promote professional advancement. With the rapid development of new communication tools and social media (e.g. Facebook, Xing), new possibilities arise to adopt practices that aim at establishing and maintaining social contacts as well as promoting the exchange of resources. In order to record social network behaviour, a questionnaire was developed and used in cultural comparison on samples from Germany, Chile and Bulgaria. It was possible to demonstrate correlations to characteristics that facilitate and hinder these behaviours (personality) as well as to the consequences of these behaviours (change in network structure). The instrument will be further developed and validated.
Further focal areas of research
- Telephone interviews (CATI) and personality
- Item Response Theory (IRT) in telephone interviews (CATI)
- Measurement of vocational interests: Translation and test theory assessment of the Oregon Vocational Interest Scales (ORVIS; Pozzebon, 2010)
Focal areas of work
- Training and continuing education courses on methods in empirical social research, in particular: interviewing, test and questionnaire development, statistics
- Development of human resources diagnostics instruments, in particular requirement profiles, personnel selection interviews, and assessment centres
- Facilitation of assessment centres, interviewing in personnel selection interviews, and preparation of HR diagnostic reviews
- Preparation of second opinions on pending personnel decisions after pre-selection by recruitment agencies
- Planning, development and realisation of population representative surveys
(Contracts outside the regular university research and teaching are usually carried out in cooperation with the Gesellschaft für Wissens- und Technologietransfer of TU Dresden - GWT-TUD GmbH)
- Test and questionnaire theories (methods training Sociology)
- Methods for the practice: conducting effective personnel selection interviews (General qualification - AQUA)
- Statistics with R (methods training Sociology)
- Academic writing (methods training Sociology)
- Research project Acceptance of electronic and complementary payment systems (Sociology module Research project in the Master's/Diplom programme - 4 SWS)
- Structured interviews and content analysis (methods training Sociology)
- Observation (methods training Sociology)
- Research project Everyday Racism in Dresden (Sociology module Research project in the Master's/Diplom programme - 4 SWS)
- CATI internship (Computer Assisted Telephone Interview - methods training Sociology)
- Internship Reviews (Psychology Diagnostics Hauptstudium)
- Seminar Standardised testing (Standardisierte Verfahren (SV), Psychology Diagnostics Hauptstudium)
- Seminar Decision-orientated interview (Entscheidungsorientierte Gesprächsführung (EOG), Psychology Diagnostics Hauptstudium)
- Tutorial for exam preparation in the subject Diagnostics (Psychology Diagnostics Hauptstudium)
- Psychology in Web 2.0 (Social Psychology as minor subject)
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Psychology of persuasion (Social Psychology undergraduate studies)
Short biography
Education
- 2001 - 2008: Studies of Psychology at Technische Universität Dresden
- Specialisation: clinical psychology, industrial and organisational psychology
- Further focal areas: personnel psychology, diagnostics and traffic psychology
- Minors: business administraion, occupational medicine/social medicine/occupational physiology
Professional experience
- Since 2008: Research Associate at Technische Universität Dresden, Psychology/Sociology
- Since 2007: Management consultant with focus on personnel selection and personnel development
- Since 2015: psychotherapist at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verhaltenstherapie (DGVT) Dresden
Specific qualifications and activities
- Holder of licence E of DIN 33430 for professional aptitude assessment
- Participation in the Forum Assessment e.V. (formerly Arbeitskreis Assessment Center - AkAC e.V.), project group Revision of Interview Standards
- Reviewer for: Journal of Official Statistics (JOS), Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences (MISS), methods - data - analyses (mda)