Evidence-Based Hiring

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About the Book

Would you hire an unknown singer without hearing them sing? Even with “five years of singing experience” in their résumé and a diploma from “Epic Singers School,” you would still like to hear them, wouldn’t you?

Surprisingly, most companies do the opposite and base hiring decisions on candidate claims and attained degrees. The good news is that you can detect the top employees other companies are missing by applying Evidence-Based Hiring process.

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Table of contents

  • License
  • CHAPTER 1: The Failure of Traditional Employment Screening
    • My First Hire
    • The Bell Curve
    • “We Hire Only the Best”
    • How Can We Fix Employment Screening?
  • CHAPTER 2: The Current Model Doesn’t Work Because We’re All Biased
    • Screening by Proxy
    • Proxies and Biases in Hiring
  • CHAPTER 3: Not All Methods Are Equal
    • Hiring Science Gone Wrong
    • The Ultimate Measure: Predictive Validity
    • Low Validity Methods
    • Medium Validity Methods
    • High Validity Methods
    • The Multiple Methods Approach
  • CHAPTER 4: Reward vs Effort
    • The Last Question
    • Reward vs. Effort Ratio
    • Why the Traditional Model Is Not Efficient
    • Ways to Reduce Effort & Increase Reward
  • CHAPTER 5: Maximizing the Reward: How to Ask Good Questions?
    • Great Questions Cheat Sheet: Bloom’s Taxonomy
    • Level 1: Remembering
    • Level 2: Understanding
    • Level 3: Applying
    • Level 4: Analyzing
    • Level 5: Evaluating
    • Level 6: Creating
  • CHAPTER 6: The New Model in Detail
    • Everything We’ve Learned: Validity, Reward vs. Effort, Good Questions
    • The Job Ad
    • The Application Form
    • Screening Résumés
    • Communicating With Candidates
    • Detailed Screening Test
    • Structured Interviews
    • Probing Motivation and Character
    • Second Opinions
    • Negotiating the Contract
    • Wrapping It Up
  • CHAPTER 7: We’re Not Done Yet: Continuous Improvement
  • CHAPTER 8: Conclusion
  • BONUS CHAPTER: Screening Software Developers
    • How Testing Platforms Work
    • Conclusion
  • One more thing…
  • About the Author

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