You know them well; those who believe they are God’s gift to selecting successful job applicants. They scoff at psychological tests and believe that good hiring is a matter of experience and intuition. Despite considerable evidence that informal interviews are notoriously unreliable as predictors of job success, these hiring managers stubbornly cling to the belief that their judgement of people is infallible. Why do these people persist in this mistaken belief?
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