In the hiring process, many factors contribute to someone getting a job...or not.  What exactly are some of those items?

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A resume? Sure. It's essential.  An interview?  Of course, in fact, many companies interview candidates multiple times with multiple people.  Reference checks?  By all means, yes! 

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Are these are great ways to gain insight into your candidates? Certainly...to an extent.  Here's the problem. About 70% of all resume's contain false information. Interviews can be deceiving.  Here's a quote from the book Testing People At Work: "Unfortunately Hollingsworth's results showed that one candidate was ranked 6th by one interviewer and 56th by another. Subsequent analyses have suggested that the traditional interview is less than 3% better than chance alone."  Sadly references too may offer limited insight as many companies today fear litigation if a bad reference is provided.  Hence the fact that so many companies today, when called for reference checks, simply say "They are (or are not) eligible for re-hire".

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