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I know several CEOs who want to always hire the smartest person they could find for leadership roles. Unfortunately, they are making costly mistakes. Intellectual intelligence is only one of several factors for recruiters and hiring managers to consider when…
Read More What is better than intelligence for job performance?
As many as 40 percent of companies admit to posting fake jobs, according to a May survey of 649 hiring managers by Resume Builder, a career site. Another organization, Greenhouse, a hiring platform, collects data from its clients who hire…
Read More Fake job postings are ruining corporate credibility
The experience job candidates have with your organization’s recruiting process can affect your employer brand, costs and even your revenue. In my book, Hack Recruiting, I disclosed that Virgin Media first learned of the revenue-damaging impact of rejected candidates when…
Read More If job applicants become pissed off, it hurts your bottom line
As reported in HR Executive, a January 2023 Resume Builder survey of 1,250 Americans found that 35 percent have lied in the hiring process, and 75 percent said they had secured a job using an application that misrepresented their education, years of…
Read More HR tech is getting played. Learn how to prevent it.
Tech sector leaders last month advocated the use of merit, excellence, and intelligence (MEI) as their recruiting strategy to hire the best and smartest talent. At the same time, some decried diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies as somehow requiring suboptimum…
Read More Intelligent recruiting doesn’t depend on an MEI system
Warning to recruiters: Your world is becoming a mess. First, some AI-digital screening software are being accused of discriminating against candidates based on their race, disability, and other factors. Second, job applicants are using ChatGPT and other software to re-write…
Read More The mess in recruiting: bias, robo-bots, bot booby traps, and how to fix it
Many interviewers need to use two of the best candidate selection techniques when hiring: validated assessments and structured interviews. Unfortunately, unstructured interviews are not much better than a coin toss when deciding who to hire. Companies hiring new talent would significantly…
Read More Improve your hiring success with aptitude tests and structured interviews
Companies need to continue focusing on hiring and retaining their most talented workers, regardless of race or gender. That’s why you shouldn’t worry about lawsuits over Title VII affirmative action practices. And this is despite the US Supreme Court ruling…
Recruiters and human resources leaders have had access to chatbots, machine learning, and artificial intelligence for years. But HR has been slow to put these digital tools to use with recruiting. The business cost of losing the talent war is…
Read More Use digital technologies to transform recruitment and hiring
There is hot global debate —maybe even an arms race — about Open AI and the blockbuster San Francisco-based start-up app ChatGPT. Is it the harbinger of humanity’s doom as predicted by Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking in 2017 or…
Read More Open AI Arms Race: Doomsday or Productivity Godsend
