Via The Daily Beast:
All those interviews you do for new employees are terrible at predicting subsequent job performance. It's a scientific fact. And no, I'm not picking on you. Job interviews are just not very useful.
Points:
- “A job interview may help you weed out the very worst candidates…But other than that, they don't do much good.”
- “…what works well are structured behavioral interviews, where you have a consistent rubric for how you assess people, rather than having each interviewer just make stuff up.”
- “Resume and past work history are much better predictors of future performance. The problem is that in most fields, these are hard to ascertain unless you're pretty prominent.”
