- Past Behavioral Interviews (PBIs) have been touted as a single, all-encompassing means to provide a clear picture of each and every one of an individual’s strengths and weaknesses and to predict his or her leadership capability.
- Although PBIs have been nearly universally adopted in executive-assessment practice, there is a fundamental misunderstanding of what these interviews actually measure.
- Surprisingly, PBIs do not measure what they claim.
- Research has proven that an individual’s performance on any PBI question, regardless of the topic, is dominated by the same three drivers: experience, job knowledge, and social skills.
- Most important, PBIs totally fail to measure an attribute that is an essential determinant of executive ...
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