The Evolving Recruitment Game
By Tim Boreham, Editor, The New Criterion
How to invest in recruitment stocks when the machines take over the hiring process
Job seekers routinely are warned that a recruiter will accept or reject an application in a matter of seconds, with a missing keyword or a grammatical error consigning the paperwork to the ‘rejected’ pile.
Attributing a previous employment separation to ‘personality differences’ doesn’t help either – and don’t even think about using emojis in the covering letter.
Given the job wranglers have to sift through thousands of resumes and florid covering letters, the hasty approach is understandable.