I was going through my email this morning and there it was, an email containing a classic sign that some vendor was promising more than any management tool or method can deliver. The headline was "No More Hiring Mistakes Interviewing the Right Way."
This suggests they are selling snake oil because they are asserting that, if you use their tool or whatever, you won't make any hiring mistakes. Perhaps their product or whatever (see here) does reduce the percentage of hiring errors, but there is no hiring method that eliminates all mistakes. Plus interviews — although useful — are not the best method for selecting new employees (see this classic study for an evaluation of different methods).
I don't claim to know anything about this tool, but I do know that these folks are making excessive claims that cannot be supported any sound research, This is yet another instance that supports a great observation from my hero James March, who once wrote me "“Most claims of originality are testimony to ignorance and
most claims of magic are testimonial to hubris.”
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