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HR departments know they are actually predictive of success...


People use them. They are like recruiting rankings and thus not perfect, but they are indisputably useful.

Of course you have to focus on the particular area of strength of the school with respect to the position you are filling, but hopefully every fortune 500 HR recruiter knows that.

I believe that university rankings are used mostly a proxy for gauging a candidate's standardized test scores. I don't think the actual undergraduate engineering curricula differs that much among schools, for example. But, if a kid went to Duke, that kid has a certain minimum SAT score that shows he has a certain level of intelligence. After that, you roll the dice as to whether the candidate has a work ethic, can actually function in a work environment, etc., which is not often evident from a resume.


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Posted: 09/16/2016 at 12:53PM



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