WSJ article on applicant screening

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Found this article thru an email in an IEEE mailing ....

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-personali ... 1429065001

Upshot is, employers give an questionnaire to the employees they value the most, record results, then pose the same questions to potential employees and correlate the answers.

That is certainly one method. I think you would find this more in consulting and professional services than in other industries. When I worked at Deloitte, they would have consistency meetings with the first and second year staff to determine who would be admitted to the group, it was very Lord of the Flies. I much preferred federal government, which had clearer performance benchmarks. Industry is somewhere between the two extremes.

That sounds about right.

Many companies also you scanning software, which looks for keywords to filter out applicants.