Hireable like me

Interviewers favour applicants who remind them of themselves.

So much depends upon nailing a job: salary, commute, colleagues, self-image, perhaps the arc of an entire career. This is what first attracted Lauren Rivera, an assistant professor of management and organisations at the Kellogg School, to the study of hiring practices. Hiring is "one of those critical gate-keeping moments whereby the judgments we make about people have enduring effects," says Rivera. She wanted to understand how people size each other up during social interactions, and how such judgements contribute to labour markets and social inequalities ... READ MORE

Released by Kellogg Insight - 3 April 2013