I imagine there are jobs (likea ship’s captain) where you need someone who is going to be physically brave, and emotionally rock solid in times of crisis. Can you accurately test for this in job interviews?
Well, you can now. Anyone with the name Schettino fails without exception.
Not really, since the same person may act fine one day and completely lose it another time. Proper training is an enormous help, too; if you know you’re trained to respond appropriately in that situation, you’ll be a lot less likely to lose your head. Instead of “ohnoeswhatdowedo?”, an emergency becomes something you can analyze and… defeat, if you’ll allow the expression.
Spanish military recruitment papers used to include the question ¿valor?, to which the standard answer was se le supone: bravery? Assumed to have it. When people are making assumptions, they may say “ok, this will be assumed, like bravery in the army”.