According to a study by HirePro, recruiters are relying less on resumes and more on personal interactions to hire candidates. The study found that resumes are often inaccurate and do not provide enough information for recruiters to judge a candidate's skills and behavioral attributes. It also revealed that a significant number of candidates exaggerate their qualifications and lie on their resumes.
Have authentic cover letters got drowned in the sea of automated cover letters? Do cover letters still add any value in times of Generative AI? ETHRWorld reached out to the HR leaders for an expert opinion.
There are thousands of such job seekers, including many from top-tier engineering and management institutes, who have fallen victim to what market experts call a "fresher glut" created by a spike in the talent pool of young professionals - freshers and those with one to two years of experience.
On Wednesday, Google let go of hundreds from its once nearly 3,000-strong recruiting team in its latest round of layoffs, saying it was "meaningfully slowing the pace of overall hiring" and "made the hard decision to reduce the size of (our) recruiting team".
Though adding photographs to CVs is a candidate's choice, the crux of the whole aspect lies in how the receiving end (recruiters) looks at it. Most people add photos to CVs in order to be differentiated in the initial screening process. But will this turn out to be a positive or negative differentiation?
ETHRWorld and Indeed collaborated yet again to present another exclusive leadership discussion on ‘Transformational Talent’ and the ways to recruit high-performing teams in the new talent landscape.
The survey of recruiters across ten sectors said that information technology roles will be witnessing the maximum impact of hiring corrections, while there will also be some impact in roles in the business development, marketing, human resources and operations fronts as well.
The monthly index of vacancies, compiled by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation trade body and accountants KPMG, fell last month to 53.0, its lowest since February 2021 and down from 54.1 in November.
Around May this year, the three accused posed as recruiters and called him saying they were looking for a director for a top MNC and could be an apt fit for the role. The accused told him that they have to follow certain procedures after which he was likely to be given the position.
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) said job vacancies rose in September at the slowest pace since February 2021 - when many businesses still faced lockdown restrictions - while starting salaries rose at the weakest pace in 15 months.
Amidst the current trends of some companies laying off their surplus staff, talent abundance is the hopeful angle for recruiters looking for the potential hires in the organisations.
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