Editor’s Note: Humetrics CEO Mel Kleiman has been helping employers standardize and systemize the way they recruit, select, and retain frontline hourly employees/managers for over 30 years. He knows what works — and what doesn’t. This is the sixth of his “Recruiting Myths.”
By Mel Kleiman
Psychologists assert that most people make a hiring decision within 14 seconds of meeting a job applicant while a study out of Michigan State (Testing as a Predictor of Training Success and Job Performance, Dr. John E. Hunter, 1969) found that: “The interview, when used alone, is, on average, only about 8 percent more effective than flipping a coin.”
Why are so many hiring decisions based on fleeting first impressions and gut-instinct interviews, when the actual best predictors of success on the job are:
There are all kinds of tests on the market that can help you screen in the best and screen out the rest. There are tests for attitudes, personality, intelligence, and honesty to name a few. You can also create your own tests for capacities and skills and ask attitude and personality questions in the interview.
This was originally published on Mel Kleiman’s Humetrics blog. His last Recruiting Myth was “It’s All About the Money.”
