There are better-predicting measures available to the larger and more organized employers, which also happen to be more defensible because they’re more directly job-related. Many tests, online assessments, portfolio presentations, and interview results are correlated with IQ, but it’s wrong to think they’re a proxy for IQ. IQ could be (in an alternate social acceptability world) a proxy for what employers really want.
Employers are looking for mental flexibility, reasoning power, and the like, but also conscientiousness and ability to actually do useful work rather than JUST being smart. IQ is correlated with success for many things, but that doesn’t make it the best measurement for most of them.
IIRC studies have found IQ is more strongly correlated with job performance than most other things people use. BUT there is one exception—tests that mirror the actual work. Which of course is more legally defensible, in addition to being a genuinely better measure. If I were hiring people, I would probably do interviews just to not seem weird to applicants, but all the real selection would be based on performance testing.
There are better-predicting measures available to the larger and more organized employers, which also happen to be more defensible because they’re more directly job-related. Many tests, online assessments, portfolio presentations, and interview results are correlated with IQ, but it’s wrong to think they’re a proxy for IQ. IQ could be (in an alternate social acceptability world) a proxy for what employers really want.
Employers are looking for mental flexibility, reasoning power, and the like, but also conscientiousness and ability to actually do useful work rather than JUST being smart. IQ is correlated with success for many things, but that doesn’t make it the best measurement for most of them.
IIRC studies have found IQ is more strongly correlated with job performance than most other things people use. BUT there is one exception—tests that mirror the actual work. Which of course is more legally defensible, in addition to being a genuinely better measure. If I were hiring people, I would probably do interviews just to not seem weird to applicants, but all the real selection would be based on performance testing.