Here’s how to outsmart a system that seems to have forgotten the people part of hiring.
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In 2024, 62% of Australian organisations used AI ‘moderately’ or ‘extensively’ in recruitment. Legal regulation is yet to catch up.
To interview well, you need to be prepared, confident (but not arrogant) and stand out from other applicants. Sounding unprepared for a few classic questions puts you at a profound disadvantage.
Research can help you make a good first impression in a virtual interview.
Conducting interviews over Zoom from your own home can add extra anxiety to an already-stressful act.
What makes an action ‘good’ or ‘evil’? And are there situations under which lying for a job interview might be justified?
Recruiters seem to have unconscious biases that can be overturned by what they see on job applications.
Research shows that job interviews are a seriously flawed way of finding out how a potential employee might perform in the future.
If you make it to the interview stage but don’t get a job offer, chances are you made one of four common errors.
Should you go with your gut when hiring an employee or making another decision on the job? The research suggests that in most cases, probably not.
There are many instances where underrepresented groups may be unwittingly discriminated against in recruitment due to affinity bias.
Horrors of job discrimination.
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