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What's embarrassing about that? If I were hiring, I would like to know every applicant's SAT score.
by DaveExeter 6y ago
What's embarrassing about that?
If I were hiring, I would like to know every applicant's SAT score.
- rychco 6y agoYou'd like to know the score your 22-24 year old candidate received on the SAT that he took when he was 17-19? How is that relevant?
- DaveExeter 6y agoSAT scores are the closest thing we have to a universal IQ test. I'd like to know the approximate IQ of a candidate. I recall reading somewhere that Google did a study on hires and found that the only thing that correlated with success at Google was SAT score. Not GPA, not specific college attended, etc.
- rychco 6y agoWhile the literature does seem to support the theory that SAT is a good measure of intelligence, I still find myself jumping to the defense of candidates who may have scored poorly on the SAT. I feel it’s unfair to judge someone’s qualifications for a specific job NOW, based on the score they received on a basic general knowledge test in high school. I don’t like this idea either, but why wouldn’t college gpa be an even better measure? It’s more recent, relevant to the job they’re applying for (in most cases), and achieved independently of parental control (in most cases).
- rory 6y agoI'm not exactly sure, I've just been told so by others. My guess is that since you take it as a teenager, it's considered strange to include it as an adult. But I haven't taken any standardized quasi-intelligence tests as an adult, so it still seems like a useful signal. People could also just lie though. I can't imagine actually confirming an applicant's SAT score.