What Is Reliability in Recruitment and Selection?

Reliability refers to whether a selection method is consistent – for instance, if five people are interviewing a candidate using the same questions, would they rate the candidate similarly? If so, that's a reliable interview.

What is reliability and validity in recruitment and selection?

Reliability and Validity are the two key characteristics that interviews have to have to be a suitable method for selection. They measure if the chosen methods provide consistent results and if they adequately measure the characteristic they are looking at.

Why is reliability important in recruitment process?

Predictive reliability in recruitment is the extent to which the selection process predicts future success in the job. If we can increase predictive reliability, then we can minimise recruitment mistakes which are costly for the organisation and distressing for the new employee.