{"id":3484,"date":"2022-09-13T14:07:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T14:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loganloomis.com\/ot\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2022-09-13T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T14:07:09","slug":"are-you-taking-data-driven-approach-to-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loganloomis.com\/ot\/are-you-taking-data-driven-approach-to-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Taking Data-Driven Approach To Hiring?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You are making a hiring decision and you obviously want the right person for the job. So, you decide to put away the Ouija board and take a data-driven approach.\u00a0 Kudos to you!\u00a0 Taking a data-driven approach, known as people analytics, can definitely improve your people-related decisions\u2014<em>as long as you use good da<\/em>ta.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I talk about people analytics in my upcoming book <em>Getting the People Equation Right <\/em>and offer a litmus test for good data\u2014the book is coming in September.\u00a0 Regarding good data, I cite academic research that shows personality tests have virtually no validity for predicting specific job performance.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not good <em>hiring<\/em> data.\u00a0 David Burkus agrees.\u00a0 Burkus is a best-selling business author and former business school professor.\u00a0 I really like his stuff and he is witty\u2014not necessarily common for former business professors.\u00a0 He had me laughing with his excellent critique of using personality tests for personnel decisions\u2014sadly too common.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thought it would be fun to share.\u00a0 See the link below for his article <em>Personality Tests are Useless (Most of Them Anyway)<\/em>, and make sure you watch the video.\u00a0 Have fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-david-burkus\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"yaIuFuzxE1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davidburkus.com\/2020\/04\/personality-tests-are-useless-most-of-them-anyway\/\">Personality Tests are Useless (Most Of Them Anyway)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Personality Tests are Useless (Most Of Them Anyway)&#8221; &#8212; David Burkus\" src=\"https:\/\/davidburkus.com\/2020\/04\/personality-tests-are-useless-most-of-them-anyway\/embed\/#?secret=DyZBPdnpsc#?secret=yaIuFuzxE1\" data-secret=\"yaIuFuzxE1\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are making a hiring decision and you obviously want the right person for the job. So, you decide to put away the Ouija board and<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loganloomis.com\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loganloomis.com\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loganloomis.com\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loganloomis.com\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loganloomis.com\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/loganloomis.com\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3486,"href":"https:\/\/loganloomis.com\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions\/3486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loganloomis.com\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loganloomis.com\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loganloomis.com\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loganloomis.com\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}