There is no more crucial aspect to any organization’s long-term success than hiring. Just one stat: a top-performer at a company, on average, is worth at least 14 times their salary while a terrible employee can cost 30 percent of theirs. That’s more than a $700,000 difference between just one great $50,000-a-year employee and one bad $50,000-a-year employee. Multiply that total over your whole company, and obviously it is a tremendous amount of money. And yet a recent report by the Society for Human Resource Management states that the average human resources professional spends less than five minutes reviewing a …Read more »
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Is The Resume Dead?
With new software and more available online, using just a resume and cover letter to screen candidates is as outdated as the Dodo Bird. In the old days of hiring – and by that we mean a few years ago – you would advertise a job, get a collection of resumes and cover letters, sort through them and bring in the best two or three for an interview. Or, you would hire a recruiter for a sizeable fee, have them build the candidate pool and do some screenings and they would give you a few people to bring in for …Read more »
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