Job Interviews Are Stuck in the Past

The interview process as a whole is pretty stupid. It's dumb in part because human reasoning is often dumb. Rigorous research across nearly a century suggests that if you try to rank the performance of a hundred candidates based on interviews, you'll be lucky if you get eight of them in the right spot. The failings of job interviews hurt all of us, whether it were the ones asking the questions or answering them. So let's take on the judgment problems that plague job interviews, one at a time.