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Articles in HR & People Teams written specifically for talent acquisition.

Realistic Job Previews: Why Telling Candidates the Unflattering Truth Reduces Early Turnover

Presenting only a role's appealing aspects during recruiting produces candidates whose actual experience on the job diverges sharply from their expectations — and that divergence is a well-documented predictor of early turnover.

Similar-to-Me Bias: Why Interviewers Consistently Rate Candidates Who Remind Them of Themselves More Highly

An interviewer's genuine, unforced sense of rapport with a candidate is a real signal of something — just not reliably a signal of the candidate's actual job-relevant ability.

Structured Interviews Beat Unstructured Ones by 2x — Here's the Actual Structure

Most interviewers believe their gut read on a candidate is reliable. Decades of selection research say otherwise — and the fix is more mechanical than it sounds.

Structured Interviews Beat Unstructured Ones by a Wide Margin, and Almost No One Actually Uses Them

The evidence gap between structured and unstructured interviews is one of the most consistent, well-replicated findings in employment research — and one of the most widely ignored in practice.

Unconscious Bias Training's Evidence Problem: Widely Adopted, Surprisingly Thin on Proven Behavior Change

Unconscious bias training reliably improves how people talk about bias in a post-training survey — the research evidence for lasting change in actual hiring and workplace decisions is considerably weaker.