The research

This is what the research says.

We build Aleida on what actually works in recruitment, not on what feels right. Here is the evidence.

Three findings from 100 years of research
Finding 01

Structured interviews are twice as good.

An unstructured interview, where the recruiter asks different questions to different candidates and judges on gut feeling, predicts job performance about as well as chance. A structured interview, where everyone gets the same questions and answers are evaluated against the same criteria, is twice as accurate. That is what Aleida automates.

Sackett et al., 2022
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Finding 02

That is what personality tests explain.

Personality tests are popular in recruitment. The research is clear: the best tests explain about five percent of the variance in job performance. That means 95 percent of the difference between a good and a bad hire has nothing to do with personality testing.

Schmidt & Hunter, 1998
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Finding 03

That is what years of experience explain.

How long someone has worked in a field is one of the most common selection criteria. Research shows it explains three percent of job performance. A well-designed interview explains ten times more.

Schmidt, Oh & Shaffer, 2016
What it means

Why we build on interviews.

The research has been clear for over twenty years. Yet most hiring decisions are made before a single interview has taken place. The CV is filtered, gut feeling decides, and most candidates never get the chance to show who they are.

It is not ill will. It is a lack of tools.

Aleida is built to change that.

Sources
1998Schmidt, F. L., & Hunter, J. E. The validity and utility of selection methods in personnel psychology.
2016Schmidt, F. L., Oh, I. S., & Shaffer, J. A. The validity and utility of selection methods in personnel psychology: Practical and theoretical implications of 100 years of research findings.
2022Sackett, P. R., et al. Revisiting meta-analytic estimates of validity in personnel selection.