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20-11-2005, 06:21 AM
<p><a href="http://www.businessbricks.co.uk/community/miscellaneous.php">Brickie</a> <a href="http://www.glide3.com">Alex Woodroffe</a> writes: </p>
<p>“This may be true or an adapted urban myth, but I have a friend in IT who was in a position where he had to do a lot of recruiting during the dot com boom. He was constantly interviewing, without fail about 20 a day (to put some perspective on this the company went from 150 just in London to over 1500 globally in one year). Anyway back to the point: he said that he received so many CV’s that occasionally he would take half of them and just put them in the bin - citing who would want to hire an unlucky person!!” </p>
<p>Like Alex, I’m not so sure about the story, but it does seem to echo the logic that it’s better to reject a good candidate than to accept a bad candidate.</p>
<p>Previously | <a href="http://www.businessbricks.co.uk/2005/10/20/how-to-hire-1/">How to hire (1)</a> and <a href="http://www.businessbricks.co.uk/2005/11/01/how-to-hire-2/">How to hire (2)</a><br />
Next | Contribute an idea for How to hire (4) by <a href="mailto:matt@businessbricks.co.uk">email</a>
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<p>“This may be true or an adapted urban myth, but I have a friend in IT who was in a position where he had to do a lot of recruiting during the dot com boom. He was constantly interviewing, without fail about 20 a day (to put some perspective on this the company went from 150 just in London to over 1500 globally in one year). Anyway back to the point: he said that he received so many CV’s that occasionally he would take half of them and just put them in the bin - citing who would want to hire an unlucky person!!” </p>
<p>Like Alex, I’m not so sure about the story, but it does seem to echo the logic that it’s better to reject a good candidate than to accept a bad candidate.</p>
<p>Previously | <a href="http://www.businessbricks.co.uk/2005/10/20/how-to-hire-1/">How to hire (1)</a> and <a href="http://www.businessbricks.co.uk/2005/11/01/how-to-hire-2/">How to hire (2)</a><br />
Next | Contribute an idea for How to hire (4) by <a href="mailto:matt@businessbricks.co.uk">email</a>
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