{"id":3696,"date":"2013-02-17T10:20:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T10:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=3696"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:38:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:38:14","slug":"measuring-good-fit-in-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2013\/02\/17\/measuring-good-fit-in-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring &quot;Good Fit&quot; in Hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>Lauren A. Rivera, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/asr.sagepub.com\/content\/77\/6\/999.abstract\">&ldquo;Hiring as Cultural Matching: The Case of Elite Professional Service Firms,&rdquo; <em>American Sociological Review<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 2012<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Lauren A. Rivera conducted interviews about the hiring process at elite professional firms and finds that hiring is about more than matching professional skills and qualifications. Rather, whether the candidate is a \u201ccultural match\u201d isn&#8217;t just an anecdotal idea&#8212;it truly matters. Similar hobbies and interests may really be the tipping point for hiring committee decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren A. Rivera, &ldquo;Hiring as Cultural Matching: The Case of Elite Professional Service Firms,&rdquo; American Sociological Review, 2012 Lauren A. Rivera conducted interviews about the hiring process at elite professional firms and finds that hiring is about more than matching professional skills and qualifications. Rather, whether the candidate is a \u201ccultural match\u201d isn&#8217;t just an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[14907,131,1005,20426],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-sociology-of-culture","tag-economy","tag-employment","tag-hiring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8314,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions\/8314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}