Testing specific, useful, and uncontroversial mental abilities - such as working memory - would be reasonable.
Honestly, most places should just randomly hire people. They already don’t know what they’re doing, so it would save everyone involved a lot of time.
Lots of intelligent people are somewhat deficient in drive, motivation and ambition.
For example, one of the smartest people I know is a Mensa member. He works as a self employed home handyman. But you'd never guess it by looking at his house. He lives in a rundown fixer upper that he bought 20 years ago and it still looks pretty much the same.
Intelligence is good for certain tasks. But the cleverest person doesn’t help if they don’t know how to make things happen, get along with the team, be on time and budget etc.