Top Behavioral Interview Questions and How to Answer Them
The exact change
"Structured behavioral interviewing, when implemented consistently, improves hiring accuracy by approximately 26 percent compared to unstructured conversational interviews." - Schmidt & Hunter, Journal of Personnel Psychology, 1998 | | | "The candidate who says they never fail is telling me either they never take risks or they lack self-awareness. Neither quality is desirable in a senior hire." - Engineering Director, Fortune 500 technology company
Schmidt and Hunter's research on selection methods found that structured behavioral interviewing, when implemented consistently, meaningfully improves hiring accuracy compared to unstructured conversational interviews. | | | A candidate who says they never fail is signaling either that they never take risks or that they lack self-awareness, and neither quality is desirable in a senior hire.
Suggested change
Corrected the Schmidt & Hunter attribution to match the real cited paper and removed the fabricated percentage; de-attributed the anonymous quote to plain unattributed prose preserving the underlying claim.
Why this is better
Corrected the Schmidt & Hunter citation, the article's own reference list correctly cites Psychological Bulletin (1998), not the unverified "Journal of Personnel Psychology," and removed the unverified 26 percent figure, replacing it with qualitative language. De-attributed the anonymous quote attributed to an unverifiable "Engineering Director, Fortune 500 technology company" into unattributed prose preserving the underlying claim.
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