Step 1.5. Validity of the employee evaluation and selection hierarchy
The interview may be the only mean which is employed for evaluation, or it may form one stage in a
sequence of eliminating impediment. These can include health checks, school information, references, etc.
On the other hand, some interviewers will confess to no such human weak point. They maintain that
they can tell as soon as the candidate has walked through the door of the interview room, whether
the person is suitable or not. Such interviewers, with implicit trust in their own judgment, tend to suppose
that their own highly personalized methods are the right answer to their problems. For them, the
sophistication of testing is wasted on an exercise as simple as summing up another person’s character and
abilities.