Kahneman also writes in the same book about his experience with interviews as a young psychologist with the Israeli army. His recommendation? A simple (but well

Kahneman also writes in the same book about his experience with interviews as a young psychologist with the Israeli army. His recommendation? A simple (but well thought out) rubric. Identify 5 or 6 qualities that are essential to the success of your team. Tailor your questions around evaluating for those. Interview a bunch of people, score them on a scale of 1 to 5 for each of those categories. Resist your gut feeling. Then hire the ones with the highest score. He acknowledges that it's crude but it was more successful than their previous process and makes as much sense as anything else I've read on the subject of hiring. Amusingly, when he got pushback from the interviewing team for not allowing them to follow their well-honed instincts, he agreed to add "Gut Feeling" as one of the 5 or 6 parameters on which candidates would be scored. That detail, for me, sums up the man's brilliance.