"The Power of Opportunity Mindset in Hiring" — Merit-Based Hiring Lacks the Rigour It Claims
Castilla reconsiders merit-based hiring, arguing that many nominally meritocratic selection processes lack the evidentiary rigour to actually identify capability, and proposes an opportunity-oriented alternative to reduce reliance on unvalidated proxies.
Why it matters
Read at MIT Sloan Management Review Anyone standing up skills-based hiring should validate that their assessments predict performance — otherwise "skills-first" reproduces the same proxy-based judgment it was meant to replace.
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