Human Capital MBA

Employee Selection Methods and Assessment Validity: Why Some Hiring Tools Predict Performance and Others Barely Outperform a Coin Toss

What Schmidt and Hunter's eighty-five-year meta-analysis actually found about which selection methods predict job performance, why a newer generation of researchers has since challenged part of that hierarchy, why a work sample test's documented group differences complicate the assumption that it quietly solves adverse impact, and what the Uniform Guidelines require once a valid test still produces an unequal hiring rate.

2 Nov 2026 · 24 min read