Most Likely to Succeed

Most Likely to Succeed: How do we hire when we can't tell who's right for the job?

There are certain jobs where almost nothing you can learn about candidates before they start predicts how they'll do once they're hired. So how do we know whom to choose in cases like that? In recent years, a number of fields have begun to wrestle with this problem, but none with such profound social consequences as the profession of teaching.

(via Cracked)