What is it about?
This chapter provides a real-world perspective on creating hiring assessments that organizations can realistically implement. It describes the journey from using a prebuilt tool to developing a customized solution, highlighting tradeoffs among science, resources, and stakeholder needs, and showing how real hiring data can improve fit over time.
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Why is it important?
Many hiring tools fail because they’re too complex or impractical. This chapter shows how to build assessments that organizations can actually use—without sacrificing quality—leading to better, fairer hiring decisions.
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This page is a summary of: Building the Plane after Takeoff, October 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/9780197692288.003.0003.
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