"People are hugely overconfident about their ability to judge others in general". I've often thought what huge risks many people take in hiring decisions - or how unwilling they are to do even a few of the easy things that could mitigate that risk. There's so much bang for so little buck to be had and people JUST DON'T DO IT. For one particular job I had twelve interviews spaced over several months, and yet not once did I feel that the interviewer actually got any useful applicable insight about me. IMO the most shocking omission is the failure to require proof of on-point capability, and total reliance instead on whether one "likes" the person. And then the employer is SHOCKED when it ends up not being a good fit. It's a @(&*@^#% miracle that anyone ever IS a fit! It's like choosing a US Olympic gymnastics team based on the candidate's ability to diagram a sentence. Absolutely ridiculous.

If I were running a business, I would require just two things: on-the-spot demonstration of applicable hard skills (revising, from-scratch drafting, a mock negotiation) and an MBTI (not to rule people out but to ensure diversity - it's deadly to have only people of one particular kind, especially if extreme, especially all in power). In fact, if I "liked" the person too much, it would make me suspect my own judgment about them MORE, not make me hire them BASED on that, let alone SOLELY on that. (This has applications elsewhere, ha ha.)

ETA woman in article is staggeringly lovely