Well, I suppose you could fish out the most trivial part of the comment and refute that. Why not set up a battery of short unit tests for the candidates? "Follo

Well, I suppose you could fish out the most trivial part of the comment and refute that. Why not set up a battery of short unit tests for the candidates? "Follow me, Jones, and we'll see how you handle the 'coworker with chewing gum' test next..." The study was done on students, who almost universally have zero experience selecting people to work under them in an industry setting (or at all). Drawing conclusions from this particularly inexperienced subject pool and then extrapolating out is bogus, particularly given the extremely certain language of the article. The subject pool is at an age (18-22) where people are still figuring out what to make of themselves and others; they have extremely little adult experience of the workplace and judgment of character - indeed, at this age, people are notorious for making bad decisions in their personal lives. When you look at the actual paper they link, out the window goes the declarative language, and instead the article is unusually full of weasel-words ('can', 'may'). There's a major difference between "utterly useless" and the actual conclusion of their paper: "interviewers probably over-value unstructured interviews".