Descriptors – recruiting/tools – how to – 3 m. read During tough times, a recruiter’s knowledge of best practices is the key to job security. As the most prolific author in the field of recruiting tools (I have written over 700 articles and a book on recruiting tools). To me, …
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Hiring Lessons From The Resume Lies Of Rep. George Santos
Trusting resume content is a main cause for the outrageous 46% new hire failure rate (within 18 months). Unfortunately, lies on resumes are becoming even more common because 85% of employers have uncovered a lie or misrepresentation in a candidate’s resume or job application. Alarmingly, lying is up 66% from …
Read More »Rejecting Resumes With Spelling Errors: A Silly and Costly Hiring Mistake
When you analyze the data, it becomes instantly clear that screening out resumes because of spelling and grammar issues is a costly and antiquated practice. For example, many people simply assume that any job that requires writing can’t be successfully filled by someone who is a weak speller. That doesn’t …
Read More »Need More Strategic Thinkers? Here’s How to Hire Them
What firm doesn’t need to be strategic? In fact, what could contribute more to the success of an organization in today’s fast-changing world of business than having a large cadre of strategic thinkers? As a result, CEOs would love to have as many of them as possible at all levels …
Read More »What’s Wrong With Using Resumes For Hiring? Pretty Much Everything
If you’re getting low quality hires, it’s time to realize that the blind and uneducated use of resumes may be a main contributing factor (note that earlier this year I completed a similar analysis on interviews, the second major contributor to low quality hires). Resumes are the currency of recruiting. …
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