You are the manager of foods company.You have an open product manager position and have 4 candidates that you have interviewed in the final round.Your approach is to hire the candidate that scores best based on the following criteria:

A.responses to questions during the interview

B.general sociability

C.perception by your other employees who have met with the potential new hire

D.questions asked during the interview

E.industry experience

You and your team believe A and E to be the most important factors.D is the least important, and has a weight less than half of the importance weight of A and E.B and C are twice as important as D but not as important and A and E.

John, Paul, Ringo and George have just completed the interviews. John had the best responses but lacks any industry experience.He ranked the highest in sociability but his perception was only half as strong as Paul's.George had the worst responses and sociability rating of any of the candidates.However he asked the best questions during the interview and has the most industry experience.Paul and Ringo's responses were only half as good as John's.Both Ringo and Paul have industry experience, and though Ringo has more than Paul, neither of them have as much experience as George.Ringo's perception ranking was the lowest of any of the 4 candidates, and though George's perception ranking was higher than Ringo's and John's, it was not as good as Paul's.The questions Paul asked during his interview were only half as good as the questions George asked but Paul's questions were twice as good as John's and Ringo's questions.Finally, Paul and Ringo had better sociability ratings than George but only half as good as John's sociability rating.

a.Which candidate do you hire?

b.Does an approach to hiring such as this become more reliable if more interviewers are used?That is, is this system more reliable if 5 interviewers are on the team rather than 3? Why or why not?Explain.