Want Top-performing Hires? Learning Ability May Be The No. 1 Predictor

Everyone involved in corporate recruiting knows that hiring managers value education because we routinely use it as an absolute requirement to screen in or screen out candidates for hiring. But unfortunately, both recruiters and hiring managers all too often focus exclusively on a single type of learning: formal education. This can lead to hiring mistakes because a candidate’s formal education may not predict on-the-job success. And even if it did, that education may have occurred years ago, so the knowledge that the candidate gained while in school may either be forgotten or painfully obsolete. Besides, if you want to shift to a data-based approach to recruiting, there is data that shows that in a fast-changing business world “learning ability” may be the single most important competency across all jobs. In fact, Google’ Laszlo Bock revealed that…