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It’s not 5 or 10, not even 20. A survey of global recruiters puts the estimate at 40%.
Almost all recruiters surveyed have confirmed that they have started investing more time in verifying authenticity of resumes.
Top lies are:
1. Dates
2. Achievements (stretching targets, increasing the number of people reporting in etc)
3. Education
4. Languages, skills
Seemingly harmless short cuts are permeating all levels - right up to the now infamous RadioShack story. And, companies are including statements of the cleansing acts in their annual reports to the stock market.
These short cuts are just that - so short lived. Like a candidate who had included couple of weeks of French grammar learning as, “Proficient in French” was stumped when the interviewer started en Francaise. Perhapse restricting to cheese and wine would have been more convenient.
All that, now we have the candidate and the employer in one table, the interview starts…In a few minutes its all over - the employer has found some holes in the resume. Often recruiters take the brunt of all these.
There are direct and indirect questions about: Did you doctor the resume?
I would love to hear from fellow professionals on hilarious and some serious situations in the lines of above.
A contact that I run into, now and then, she is in some kind of a research team, they’ve been talking to staffing teams lately, I believe something like 85% of recruiters believe that they want change in the way online services and portals bill them.
That made a lot of sense, we are a team of around 10, and a good portion of our budgets get locked right on day 1 every year - for job portals.
Posted by BigBill, on May 1st, 2007, às 5:52 am. #.
If you ask me, a job portal is like any other eStore, what applies to one store should pretty much apply to another. Am not a great fan of locking ‘account usage’ fee in. Account usage is supposed to be free, like everywhere else, if I buy stuff that I can use, am more than glad to pay.
Posted by Calaghan, on May 2nd, 2007, às 9:03 pm. #.
Absolutely, not quite sure why recruiters alone have to work in stone age methods when all other web businesses have moved on.
Posted by BigBill, on May 5th, 2007, às 11:53 pm. #.
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