We did a study on 700 candidates applying for a graduate role, putting CV sift in parallel with work sample and situational judgement testing. The CV scoring w

We did a study on 700 candidates applying for a graduate role, putting CV sift in parallel with work sample and situational judgement testing. The CV scoring was entirely uncorrelated with who went on to do well (in fact it was slightly negative but not statistically relevant). That said, graduate level roles suffer from the behavioural/motivational disconnect between education and the workplace. I'd love to do another study with more senior hires. In case anyone's bothered we wrote it up here https://medium.com/finding-needles-in-haystacks/putting-applied-to-the-test-part-1-9f1ad6379e9e https://medium.com/finding-needles-in-haystacks/putting-appl...