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Are job interviews useful?
In general, they are often the most useful way to hire. The key is to decide in advance on a list of questions, specifically designed to test job-specific skills, then ask them to all the candidates.
Are interviews reliable and valid?
Results revealed that the subset of studies reporting length of interviews yielded reliability and validity estimates consistent with more comprehensive meta-analyses. Consistent with previous research on consensus judgements of personality, length of the interview was found to be unrelated to reliability.
How accurate is an interview?
Surprisingly, our ability to identify talent continues to be less than sufficient. A 1998 study found that traditional interviews only have 50\% accuracy.
Are job interviews pointless?
Why job interviews are pointless. The only way to see that the interview isn’t going to be worth much is to be able to apply the “law of large numbers”, which prompts the recognition that an interview represents a very small sample of behaviour, whereas the references summarise a lot of behaviour.
Should you interview every candidate for every job?
My recommendation is not to interview at all unless you’re going to develop an interview protocol, with the help of a professional, which is based on careful analysis of what you are looking for in a job candidate. And then ask exactly the same questions of every candidate.
Do extroverts do better in interviews than introverts?
Consider the job interview: it’s not only a tiny sample, it’s not even a sample of job behaviour but of something else entirely. Extroverts in general do better in interviews than introverts, but for many if not most jobs, extroversion is not what we’re looking for.
Is it worth it to have a 30-minute interview?
The employer tells his colleagues that it’s not worthwhile recruiting him. Most people regard this as a reasonable sort of decision. But it isn’t. Countless studies show that the unstructured 30-minute interview is virtually worthless as a predictor of long-term performance by any criteria that have been examined.