Screening & Assessment

How Your Flawed Reference Checking Process Is Causing Numerous Bad Hires Part 1 Cheating on reference checks is at an all-time high. To slow this trend, this article provides a scannable list of the problems that cause flawed reference-checking processes to produce a significant number of bad or failed hires. …

Pick one: reference checks suck, or they are the perfect scam. Even though everyone uses them, there is no corporate evidence that reference checks identify great hires or that they screen out weak candidates. So it’s important to pay attention to the few public critics of this reference-checking process. More …

Cheating on reference checks is at an all-time high. To slow this trend, this article provides a scannable list of the problems that cause flawed reference-checking processes to produce a significant number of bad or failed hires. The reference-checking process in most businesses and corporations needs immediate attention. After years …

In our competitive and fast-moving world, failure is now a certainty. And even though it may sound counterintuitive, instead of the traditional approach of automatically rejecting candidates who have experienced failure in their jobs, today, we should instead be considering “failure as the greatest teacher.” We should begin considering those …

You shouldn’t hire those who lack qualifications but have the potential to develop on-the-job. Even though some hiring managers have used this strategy, they mistakenly believed that recruiting and hiring “underqualified candidates with the potential to develop on-the-job” would be easier to source, sell, and hire than the alternative of …

With record applications (up 45%), mostly from AI agents, 20% of employers are considering pay to apply. “Pay to apply” is a process for discouraging the shotgunning of applications by charging a small application fee to candidates. And incidentally, the “AI agents” driving this massive increase in resumes aren’t people. …

If you can’t afford to hire a single candidate who has lied about their experience or credentials, you must first realize that the standard reference-checking process designed to catch those resume lies ranks painfully low (#11) in predicting whether a candidate will perform well on the job. Unfortunately, your current …

Move past keywords and add powerful content that both AI bots and recruiters will notice and remember. Start By Realizing That… AI Is Dramatically Changing Resume Screening Yes, job search has long been intensely competitive because an applicant may compete against 250 other resumes. However, having your resume successfully pass …

As a hiring guru, I guarantee that this interview question will instantly raise your hiring results. Yes, having a candidate answer a “solve this problem” interview question may be the most impactful interview question of all. This may seem too good to be true, but trust me on this one. …

Improve your hiring results and save hours of valuable manager time with automated video interviews. This Emerging Interview Tool Is Right For Today’s Problems To start off, before you even begin thinking negatively about automating anything in HR. Realize that in today’s highly competitive world of recruiting. It is essential …