According to a CareerBuilder survey, 58% of employers have caught a lie on a resume. The most common lies are embellishing skill sets and previous responsibilities. One of the most memorable noted in the survey was this: The applicant claimed to have been a...
Simplify your hiring in 2020 with Automated Reference Checks. According to new research from Robert Half, an American HR consulting firm, HR Directors in the UK spend an average of 27.59 days on recruiting for talent within the organization, with ‘checking...
How to avoid a bad hire? Hiring the wrong person can have significant consequences for your business. This is especially true if you’re a small company, where a single person makes up a lot of your workforce. What you might not realize is how expensive it is – in...
The Do’s ans Don’ts of Reference checks and Pre-screening As an HR professional, handling new hires is a significant part of your job. Two things can make a notable difference in how effective you are. They are: how you handle pre-screening new applicants,...
Everyone is looking for ways to do more with less. You probably have a lot of hats in your HR department. While hiring is one of the most important, there’s no doubt you wish you could optimize your time a bit better. Imagine if you could only do interviews (phone or...
