๐ช๐ต๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐๐ผ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ต๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ ๐ด๐ผ ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ป๐ด?
At the HR Leaders Summit in Berlin, I asked this:
โIn interviews, trust your gut โ itโs usually right.โ
Who agrees?
The room was split.
And hereโs what I shared next:
Structured interviews outperform intuition by 60%โ150%.
Thatโs not new - weโve known it for over a century.
But that doesnโt mean gut instinct is useless.
It can help - in ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฐ cases.
Namely, when the interviewer is a ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐
๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐.
And thatโs rarer than most assume.
๐ง๐ผ ๐พ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐ณ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐, ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ผ:
1. Know exactly what predicts success in the role
2. Have interviewed for it dozens of times
3. Have seen first-hand how those hires performed
If thatโs not you?
Then your โinstinctโ is probably just noise.
At Informed Decisions, we help companies:
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Define the skills that actually predict success
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Use structured interviews to measure them consistently
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Capture gut feel - after scoring skills
Pro tip:
Donโt silence your intuition - just put it at the end, and make it measurable.
Most of us trust our gut too early - and too blindly.
Have you ever tracked whether your instincts were actually right?
