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Could you be overlooking great candidates who didn't go to top school or have a personal referral, yet have the skills and would be great to work with? I've wor
by jgafni 3mo ago
Could you be overlooking great candidates who didn't go to top school or have a personal referral, yet have the skills and would be great to work with? I've worked with many engineers who fit that category.
Both of those signals reflect prior selection by someone else. Admissions committees, your network's hiring choices. Those signals also correlate with class, geography, and network access.
I'm not saying that referrals and schools don't predict. They do. But no referrals and no top school doesn't necessarily mean a candidate isn't a fit. The more AI advances, the greater the need for a new signal.
- vanuatu 3mo ago100%, if someone from a no name school does well on the interview I’ll happily recommend them to be hired. However idk how HR filters resumes, and they likely use certain heuristics to try and minimize false positives