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Would You Interview This Candidate?

SmartRecruiters

About a year ago, after looking at the resumes of engineers we had interviewed at TrialPay in 2012, I learned that strongest signal for whether someone would get an offer was the number of typos and grammatical errors on their resume. Source: https://what-if.xkcd.com/19/. Here’s the breakdown: Agency recruiters – 56%.

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Resumes suck. Here’s the data.

Aline Lerner

About a year ago, after looking at the resumes of engineers we had interviewed at TrialPay in 2012, I learned that the strongest signal for whether someone would get an offer was the number of typos and grammatical errors on their resume. Source: https://what-if.xkcd.com/19/. Here’s the breakdown: Agency recruiters – 56%.

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