Quote Originally Posted by Nessus View Post
How else would private companies find out which people are worth hiring? Aside from "old boy networks". I know I wrote it so that it sounds dystopian, but honestly these kind of background-checking firms could sell a fine product, the best workers for each task. Isn't that what the free markets do, optimize the output?
They already do this. Psych profiles are normal for Director level or above. Quite a few companies do an extensive background check on any canidate you make an offer to. Hell, i just went through this process when the headhunter contacted me to work at my new job... ironically because I had met them at a fraud conference and came highly recommended.