Should You Believe Your Instincts When Hiring? How difficult can it be to conduct an interview and determine a candidate’s suitability for a given requirement or position? Well, let’s get to it. We can all conduct interviews and decide whether or not they look like a good fit for the position, but the real question is: Can we TRUST our judgement? To get an answer to this, let us first get into the details of human psychology, revolving around human tendencies and prejudices.
Human psychology – What the experts have to say •
Dr. Daniel Kahneman, who has received the Nobel Prize for his innovations in behavioural economics and human psychology, has spent decades in researching the science underlying a better understanding of decision-making, the reasons why some judgement errors are so frequent, and what we can do to increase the accuracy of our decisionmaking processes.
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Malcolm Gladwell, the author of five New York Times bestsellers, has provided numerous examples of human propensity for making quick decisions, and taking actions based more on intuition than on logic or evidence.
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Daniel Simons, an experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and professor in the department of psychology, has researched to demonstrate that human observation cannot be relied upon to provide an accurate record of the world and its unfolding events.