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The Science of Predictive Hiring: Which Pre-Hire Signals Actually Predict Performance?
Published 4 days, 10 hours ago
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Twenty-five years of meta-analyses have quietly settled which hiring signals actually forecast job performance — and most companies are still betting on the weakest ones. We break down the predictive validity hierarchy from Schmidt & Hunter through Sackett's 2022 revision, why AI-only screening can underperform a structured human process, and how to build an assessment stack that combines the two.