[verve_rat]

Wait, so the conclusion the study came to was... people that do well in the interview process tend to get hired?

In my experience interview processes act like a series of stage gates, you have to pass each and every one to get hired. It seems trivial to say the doing well in each activity is predictive of success when you need to do well in everything to be successful.

I don't mean to be mean, but that study sounds like a giant missed opportunity to do something useful. Knowing what interview activities are actually predictive of being good in a job is the holy grail.

[bravura]

Completely missed opportunity, particularly since GP has been breathlessly recounting this story to others since it happened, and probably his old colleagues are too.

[josephg]

GP here. I completely agree. Looking back, I wish I pushed harder to follow up and get the last piece of that data. It was a massive missed opportunity.