{"id":952,"date":"2007-05-30T12:40:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T17:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/the-truth-about-candidates\/"},"modified":"2007-05-30T12:40:25","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T17:40:25","slug":"the-truth-about-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/the-truth-about-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This line is straight from a CareerBuilder.com email blast:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The record shows that the job goes not necessarily to the perfect candidate, <strong>but to the person who knows the most about how to get hired<\/strong>. So let\u20ac\u2122s get busy\u20ac\u00a6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope that gives you pause.  That&#8217;s their bolding too.  This approach &#8211; knowing how to get hired &#8211; is the backbone of bad hiring.  Bad candidates can still know how to appear strong, adapt greatly or Google deeply to masquerade through your hiring process.<\/p>\n<p>The fix is to use a process that limits your reliance upon your gut since that is how they pull it off.  Use a focused process, rely on objective assessments and use multiple interviewers and you lower your risk of a pretender landing on your payroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This line is straight from a CareerBuilder.com email blast: The record shows that the job goes not necessarily to the perfect candidate, but to the person who knows the most about how to get hired. So let\u20ac\u2122s get busy\u20ac\u00a6 I hope that gives you pause. That&#8217;s their bolding too. This approach &#8211; knowing how to get hired &#8211; is the backbone of bad hiring. Bad candidates can still know how to appear strong, adapt greatly or Google deeply to masquerade through your hiring process. The fix is to use a process that limits your reliance upon your gut since that is how they pull it off. Use a focused process,&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/the-truth-about-candidates\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-fm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->