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Job seeker: "Your company's employment test is stupid." Employer: "Clearly it isn't stupid because every awesome person we have employed has passed that test.

• tokenadult 11y ago
  Job seeker: "Your company's employment test is stupid." From the article: "Instead, Smith says, Collins should have started with a list of companies at the beginning of the test period and then used 'plausible criteria to select eleven companies predicted to do better than the rest. These criteria must be applied in an objective way, without peeking at how the companies did over the next forty years. It is not fair or meaningful to predict which companies will do well after looking at which companies did well! Those are not predictions, just history.'" In the actual research on company hiring procedures, the correct research procedure is used by giving tests BEFORE job seekers are hired, and then seeing how they do as workers over time. Industrial and organizational (I/O) psychologists have been doing this kind of research for about a century, in countries all over the world, testing hundreds of thousands of workers in numerous job categories in hundreds of workplaces in dozens of countries. Hiring job-seekers based on work-sample tests and tests of the job-seekers' cognitive ability reliably improves worker performance over the long term. There is a FAQ on this topic[1] with links to the research literature you can read for more details. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4613543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4613543