Armitage Archive

Highlight from Insights for Interviews From Kahneman's Noise

Old style "chat" interviews where you talk to a candidate and have a conversion feel the most effective. People love them because they get a strong gut feel for the candidate and think that's good.

Those interviews have a 50% correlation with on-the-job performance. Useless. The decision has more to do with the interviewer than the interviewee.