Everytime I read one of these "how to hire" posts, it's always a opinionated clusterfuck of a process that is arbitrary/capricious, gameable and biased towards

Everytime I read one of these "how to hire" posts, it's always a opinionated clusterfuck of a process that is arbitrary/capricious, gameable and biased towards what OP thinks are good traits. This is a problem that is very easy to solve if you were allowed to use proxies for intelligence and grit. Just test for IQ and trait conscientiousness. [1] ---- [1] IQ is a stronger prediction of on the job performance than anything else. https://www.steveloh.org/news/2020/5/27/best-predictor-of-job-performance-especially-for-cognitively-complex-jobs https://www.steveloh.org/news/2020/5/27/best-predictor-of-jo...