Practice question · Multiple choice
Unstructured interviews predict job performance poorly and remain the most-used selection tool. What sustains the practice?
Hints
- Ask what an interviewer learns about the candidates they turned down.
- Confidence and accuracy can come apart. What keeps them apart here?
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C. Interviewers never observe the rejected candidates' performance
Why
You only ever see how the hires perform, so a bad selection rule generates no disconfirming evidence and confidence grows unchecked. Structured interviews cost little more and predict far better; the obstacle is that the unstructured version feels more informative, which is a different thing.
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