Hiring is a Fake Science: Farah Sharghi / why you're not getting interviews

The Legion calls your name: https://legionaries.circle.so/welcome When I started in tech support, I was told it would take a decade to reach senior level. By ignoring the rules, I became a senior engineer in just 2 years. Now, I am pulling back the curtain. I founded the Legion to give other IT specialists the blueprint, negotiation tactics, and community required to maximize their earning potential in the modern tech industry. ---------------------------------------------------- Research: 1. «Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here’s the data», 2024; «Hidden Eye Tracker: How Recruiters Actually Read Resumes», 2025; «Keeping an eye on recruiter behavior», 2018. 2. Harvard Business School «Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent, Untapped Opportunity», 2021; «Gender, race, and intersectional bias in resume screening via language model retrieval», 2024; The Markup / HireVue, 2021. 3. «The Validity and Utility of Selection Methods in Personnel Psychology», 2016; Harvard Business School «Skills-Based Hiring», 2024; LinkedIn «Career Break», 2024; «The Sabbatical Project», 2023. 4. «How Broadly Does Education Contribute to Job Performance?», 2009; «Meta-Analyzing the Relationship Between Grades and Job Performance», 1996; «The Validity and Utility of Selection Methods in Personnel Psychology», 1998; Harvard Business School «Skills-Based Hiring», 2024; LinkedIn «Career Break», 2024; «The Sabbatical Project», 2023. 5. «The Validity and Utility of Selection Methods in Personnel Psychology», 2016; McKinsey «The State of Organizations», 2023; Harvard Business School «Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent, Untapped Opportunity», 2021 6. «Impression Management and Interview and Job Performance Ratings», 2017; «Initial Impressions», 2016; «The Validity and Utility of Selection Methods in Personnel Psychology», 1998; «Revisiting the design of selection systems in light of new findings regarding the validity of widely used predictors», 2023. 7. «Revisiting the design of selection systems in light of new findings regarding the validity of widely used predictors», 2023; «Learning Agility: Its Evolution as a Psychological Construct and Its Empirical Relationship to Leader Success», 2017/2019; «The Validity and Utility of Selection Methods in Personnel Psychology», 1998. 8. «Impression Management and Interview and Job Performance Ratings», 2017; «How quickly do interviewers reach decisions?», 2015; «How Interviewers Know When to Hire You in 90 Seconds«; «Initial impressions: What they are, what they are not, and how they influence structured interview outcomes», 2016 9. «The Validity and Utility of Selection Methods in Personnel Psychology», 2016; «Revisiting the design of selection systems in light of new findings regarding the validity of widely used predictors», 2023; «Initial impressions: What they are, what they are not, and how they influence structured interview outcomes», 2016 «Hiring as Cultural Matching», 2012; «Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs», 2016; «Consequences of Individuals’ Fit at Work», 2005; «The CEO Next Door», 2018; «How Special Are Executives?», 2009; Susan Cain «Quiet», 2012; Harvard Business Review «The Hidden Advantages of Quiet Bosses», 2010. 10. «Does interview anxiety predict job performance and does it influence the predictive validity of interviews», 2019; «Does Stress Impact Technical Interview Performance?», 2020; Google «Being good at programming competitions correlates negatively with being good on the job», 2020; «How well do LeetCode ratings predict interview performance?»; «Measuring the MBTI … and coming up short», 1993; «MBTI Code of Ethics»; «A meta-analysis of the criterion-related validity of prehire work experience», 2019; «5 Reference Checking Myths Debunked», 2023.