"Not surprisingly, interview specialists have found extraordinarily difficult to persuade most employers to adopt the structured interview. It just doesn't feel right. For most of us, hiring someone is essentially a romantic process, in wich the job interviews functions as a desexualized version of a date. We are looking for someone with whom we have a certain chemistry, even if the coupling results in tears and the pursuer and the pursued turn to have nothing in common. We want the unlimited promise of a love affair. The structured interview, by contrast, seems to offer only the dry logic and practicality of an arranged marriage."
From "What the Dog Saw" Malcom Gladwell p.390-391 (October, 2009) and from the article "New-Boy Network", The New Yorker (May, 2000)
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