Re:One hiring filter that works
by rdl on Friday April 06, 2012 @12:31PM
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How specific to the job does the validation of IQ test to job have to be to pass the legal test?
Could someone do an (awesome) academic study which shows that all programmers benefit from g, or at least that all developers in x language do? Or add some specific problem where g is hugely useful (algorithm design?) and then make that problem a requirement for many programming positions?
There would be a huge benefit to technology hiring if we could start using a cheap, standard test result vs. relying on proxies like school admittance (where they can screen for IQ), or expensive work-sample tests (which burn more of the applicant's time, selecting against busy/good candidates).
I'd rather advantage poor, possibly non-US, high-IQ, busy applicants over either graduates of elite schools (correlated with rich) or people willing to spend the time to take a 4-40 hour unpaid assignment.
Could someone do an (awesome) academic study which shows that all programmers benefit from g, or at least that all developers in x language do? Or add some specific problem where g is hugely useful (algorithm design?) and then make that problem a requirement for many programming positions?
There would be a huge benefit to technology hiring if we could start using a cheap, standard test result vs. relying on proxies like school admittance (where they can screen for IQ), or expensive work-sample tests (which burn more of the applicant's time, selecting against busy/good candidates).
I'd rather advantage poor, possibly non-US, high-IQ, busy applicants over either graduates of elite schools (correlated with rich) or people willing to spend the time to take a 4-40 hour unpaid assignment.