# How predictive is culture fit vs. other methods?

- **Episode:** [04](https://agents.truthliesandwork.com/episodes/04.md) (2022-07-19)
- **Type:** other
- **Tags:** culture-fit, predictive, hiring-methods
- **Time:** 2:58–4:41 (start 178s)
- **Listen:** [https://truthliesandwork.com/04?t=178](https://truthliesandwork.com/04?t=178)

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[2:58] Al Elliott: So, so back in, back in the day when I was building my second business, I was reading lots and lots of books, uh, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Remote by the guys from 37signals, all these classic books. And they were kind of suggesting, oh, you recruit for culture fit. You— Zappos was another one, I think, where they said that they encourage people to bring their friends in to work with them. Now, I'm guessing that the science has moved on a little bit, and maybe we've moved on as employers. So Why would someone not want to recruit for culture fit these days?
[3:29] Leanne Elliott: Culture is undeniably an incredibly important part about organizations and organizational performance. Recruiting for culture fit, however, is tricky. It's not impossible, but it's tricky. And the reality is, unless you are at that level of— I can't even say it. And the reality is, unless you're at that level of sophistication within your business, then it's very difficult to reliably assess candidates' knowledge, skills, and abilities, their competencies within the context of your culture. So, if you would have listened last week to the podcast or yesterday, how often do these come out? The last episode. You would have heard us talk about recruitment and the science of recruitment. And a big part of the science of recruitment is that the recruitment methods we have, whether it be interviews, psychometrics, work sample tests is that they offer predictions of future work performance. Predictions of future work performance vary. So, we have over 100 years of research, and that research has identified roughly 30 predictors or recruitment methods that are predictive of job performance. And yes, one of them is culture fit