Comments on: Managers Need You to Screen Out the Weakest Candidates

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Staffing Tips: Are you Polluting your Candidate Pool? | CERS — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:08:46 +0000

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By: Rajpreet Heir

Rajpreet Heir — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:14:31 +0000

Thank you Dr. Wendell Williams for such a thorough and useful article. You mention “recruiters and hiring managers alike generally fail to embrace technology that has been around for decades.” Why do you think this is? With the internet becoming less text-based and more video-based, what advice do you have for those reluctant to change?

By: Paul Basile

Paul Basile — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 04:50:42 +0000

Wendell,Excellent, basic wisdom – which doesn’t make it easier necessarily for companies to adopt these practices. I continue to be convinced that the evident correctness of using serious data and analysis in the gut-feel-dominated domain will one day triumph.

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Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:42:43 +0000

[...] poor work ethic, bad attitude, and more than a few emotional problems,” writes Tom Searcy.2. Managers Need You to Screen Out the Weakest Candidates. ERE: “[A]ny organization that uses poor or inaccurate hiring processes is doomed to suffer [...]

By: Dr. Wendell Williams, MBA, Ph.D

Dr. Wendell Williams, MBA, Ph.D — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 01:38:19 +0000

Yep! And, just look at the cost!

By: Chris Motley

Chris Motley — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:10:20 +0000

Great article. Do you think recruiters are incentivized to accept and defend status quo? I agree with your point re: probability as well. At end of day, recruiting is a risk management business, yet they are not experts in risk management and are not incentivized to become one.