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I am not an HR professional. This is all experience as manager/director/multiple business owner.
I worked at one big corporate (Capital One Bank) who had both very rigorous recruitment processes and had very comprehensive annual appraisal processes for employees - plus of course hard data like whether they made it through appraisal, how long they worked there, promotions etc.
They did analysis (they are renowned for analysing everything), looking for correlations between scores of various bits of the recruitment process and the above outcomes.
There is literature on this sort of thing as well, some of it of dubious quality.
But really if you did some or all the interviewing and were responsible for the hiring... (read more)
I don’t have any rigorous principled argument for this, other than just the empirical personal observation that ignoring the feeling usually seems to be a mistake.
Likewise only empirical personal observation, but having interviewed and hired (or not) a lot of people. I would say I have got better over time - and separating first impression/prejudice from vibe is mostly achievable. And vibe definitely counts and is valid.
There are also people who I trust to be much better than me at hiring good people, and they also consider vibe valid (but are also very rigorous about applying wide ranging interview&selection methods).... And there are people I trust to be awful at choosing people!
Normally... (read more)
I am being lazy and not reading all the papers you referenced - do many of them discuss the viral load of the person who is infected?
I worked on PCR covid testing during the pandemic and the viral load of samples that went through our labs would often be multiple orders of magnitude different between samples. Some people seemed to just have way more virus in them than others, it did not obviously correlate with symptoms.
I was likewise very shocked at just how little was known about how virus actually spread on a practical level. How do people not know whether humidity affects how long virus remains active?, temperature?, dry vs wet... (read more)