You may think you’re bad at judging which candidates will become star employees and which will crash and burn. But it turns out almost everyone is.
According to a study out of the University of Toledo in 2000, interviewers tend to form an opinion about a candidate within 10 seconds of the person walking in a room. The problem? These snap judgements are usually wrong.
“Based on the slightest interaction, we make a snap, unconscious judgment heavily influenced by our existing biases and beliefs.
