Research
In 2022 Paul Sackett and colleagues went through the research on hiring methods. A structured interview predicts best: the same questions for everyone, about what they have done, assessed the same way. That is the interview Aleida runs.
What predicts job performance
What the numbers say
The figure is validity: how well a method predicts how someone later does in the job. 0 means not at all, 1 means perfectly.
A structured interview reaches 0.42. An ordinary interview, where the questions come as they come, reaches 0.19.
Years of experience reach 0.07 and level of education 0.10. Those are the two things that stand out most on a CV.
When everyone gets the same question about a real situation, you can put the answers side by side. You cannot read CVs that way.
How Aleida does it
The questions are written for the role together with you, and everyone who applies for the job gets them.
If an answer is short or unclear, Aleida asks about what the candidate wrote, the way you would on the phone.
The answers are assessed against the same template, and the candidate's own words sit under every assessment, so you can see what it builds on.
The candidate can upload a CV. Aleida uses it to ask better questions, but the assessment builds on the conversation.
For the people who apply
They often have a summer job, a team they train with or a school project. In the conversation they get to talk about it, and the answer is assessed the same way as for someone who has worked for ten years.
What the numbers apply to
The figures are about the methods in the research. They are not measured on Aleida. We say that Aleida builds on the method the research ranks highest, not that Aleida reaches 0.42.
Source: Sackett, P. R., Zhang, C., Berry, C. M., & Lievens, F. (2022). Revisiting meta-analytic estimates of validity in personnel selection. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(11), 2040.
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