GPA Job Performance Correlation

Google has strong data that it does predict job performance, better than GPA, college degree and so on. What are your aggregate data showing that Google is wrong on this?

The best way to see if someone will perform well at a job, is to have them do that job and see. The second best way is to ask them for proof they succeeded at a similar job. That proof is usually a combination of references and a discussion about work they did at the previous job.If you can't do any of those things, like for some recent grads, then the next best predictors of job performance are going to be psychometrics, specifically IQ and trait conscientiousness. Colleges heavily s

Do SAT scores correspond with work performance?

Agreed. The study is showing how much people's views of resume X agrees with the author's full evaluation.But what I or my company consider a quality candidate may differ from the author.On another note, I've found that for recent grads, GPA, school, and major (all items on the resume) are excellent predictors of interview performance.

"A company looking for new hires can't give everyone a month-long trial to see what their ability is firsthand, so credentials like GPA and degree serve as a heuristic."This is just corporate propaganda. GPA has no correlation with work performance, it's only used because it's a legal way to keep minorities out of the workforce.

not only that, but they aren't a great predictor of actual job performance

Eh, do quote fairly though:"Although GPA has been widely analyzed, the research has produced inconsistent results. Some meta-analyses suggest that grades have relatively low validity as a predictor of job success (Bretz, 1989; Hunter and Hunter, 1984). Individual studies by Ferris (1982) and Schick and Kunnecke (1982) support the meta-analysis findings; these studies found no relationship between grades and performance evaluations."In other words the state of research on this question, bac

Meta data analysis from thousands of studies shows that there is essentially 0 correlation between where someone went to school (or their GPA) and how well they perform on the job once hiredThe data may say that, but it likely omits a lot.For example, if I have a candidate with straight A's from MIT, but I hire someone else who had a 1.2 from Podunk State instead, I supsect that the candidate from Podunk State had some other qualification that offset their school and GPA.This is

Sure, 'smarter' was a poor choice of words, but the point is I suspect there may be a correlation between general cognitive performance and job attainment.

Work sample tests and IQ are the only thing in the whole hiring song and dance that correlate to future performance. And it's legally questionable to test IQ.