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Up to a point, but experience does serve as a filter. It's hard to measure intelligence and drive from a resume - it's hard enough to get a picture of actual ex

Up to a point, but experience does serve as a filter. It's hard to measure intelligence and drive from a resume - it's hard enough to get a picture of actual experience. An important factor is what kind of experience we're talking about. Take an engineer with ten years of experience. After ten years, a qualified engineer should be fluent in a fairly large number of technologies in various capacities. On the contrary, somebody who has been writing CRUD PHP webapps at the same company for the last ten years might not be your first choice for a hire.

travisp 14y ago
The research mentioned shows that the correlations are close to 0 even within similar work (there aren't many surgeons doing the equivalent of CRUD PHP webapps), which would imply that it's a filter that doesn't actually do you any good. I suppose you're arguing that the correlation is greater than 0 for an engineer and therefore it might be an effective filter. But how much greater? Particularly for industries where skill is important, using a marginally effective employment filter can significantly backfire.