Are intelligence tests also ruled out or are they considered aptitude tests? [there used to be programmer aptitude tests as well as IQ tests in the fifties]
The closer you get to intelligence tests, the worse trouble you’re in. And I’d presume programming aptitude largely comes from intelligence?
The Holder Justice Department is pressing harder for employers to show that even the academic credentials they largely have used as proxies for intelligence must now show that they are more closely related to the actual requirements of the work.
I guess a ‘programming aptitude test’ at least had the right name to suggest such a correlation!
But as hard as we want to bash business for looking to hire trained employees, rather than take on high-potential trainees and provide the training themselves, we should recognize that hiring by accumulated skill is about the only safe hire in this environment.