To think job interviews are more about performance anxiety than potential?

[HireBySubstance]

Some of the best people I’ve worked with would never “interview well.” It’s all small talk, stamina and reading cues, none of which measure capability.

AIBU to think interviews reward social polish more than genuine skill?

I feel you. I’m trying to jump ship at work and finding it impossible because I am diabolical at interviews and can’t ever seem to understand what they want to hear. Was asked whether my leadership style is centralised and literally couldn’t answer the question, it’s like a foreign language to me.

It’s not a great measure of what someone will be like, unless the job is something like sales.

There have been a number of similar threads recently - are you the same poster?

No. When I interview I'm trying to find out if people have the skills they claim. They need to be able to talk about experience and examples of what they claim. It's not smalltalk or reading cues, it's about being able to prove what you've put in your application. How do you suggest I do this without interviews? What's an alternative to answering "What would you do in this situation?"

What else would you propose, OP?