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I have some major issues with their conclusions... and the title of the article (which is mostly nonsensical clickbait). The real conclusion should be that "un
by ravitation 10y ago
I have some major issues with their conclusions... and the title of the article (which is mostly nonsensical clickbait).
The real conclusion should be that "unstructured interviews provide a variable that decreases the average accuracy of predicting GPAs, when combined with (one) other predictive variable(s) (only previous GPA)."
This conclusion seems logical. When combined with an objective predictive measure of a person's ability to maintain a certain GPA (that person's historical ability to maintain a certain GPA), a subjective interview decreases predictive accuracy when predicting specifically a person's ability to maintain a certain GPA.
To then go on to conclude that interviews then provide little, to negative, value in predicting something enormously more subjective (and more complicated), like job performance, is absurd - and borderline bad science.
There are numerous (more subjective) attributes that an unstructured interview does help gauge, from culture fit to general social skills to one's ability to handle stressful social situations. I'd hypothesize all of these are probably better measured in an unstructured (or structured) interview than in most (any) other way. To recommend the complete abandonment of unstructured interviews (which is done in the final sentence of the actual paper) is ridiculous.
- emodendroket 10y ago> There are numerous (more subjective) attributes that an unstructured interview does help gauge, from culture fit to general social skills to one's ability to handle stressful social situations. I'd hypothesize all of these are probably better measured in an unstructured (or structured) interview than in most (any) other way. To recommend the complete abandonment of unstructured interviews (which is done in the final sentence of the actual paper) is ridiculous. Well, based on what? Is there any evidence for any of these hunches?
- ravitation 10y agoI didn't say it was based on hard data, that's why it's a hypothesis... But, if you really believe that it's a huge leap to hypothesize that interviews would be a better measure of subjective social skills than metrics like GPA, I don't know what to tell you.
- emodendroket 10y agoI mean let's go further back. I question the assumption that selecting for "culture fit" does much more than shut people out whose ethnic background or social class is too different.
- ravitation 10y agoI mean, that's an extremely narrow reading of "culture fit". Believe it or not, there are non-racist and non-classist character traits that are also not represented in one's GPA. But, I guess hiring for one's willingness to work with specific clients, or for one's happiness with the organization's structure (in, for example, a holacracy) wouldn't be valid things to hire around to you?