Hard-to-fill roles? Endless reqs? Shrinking budgets? Candidate ghosting?
To the list of ongoing recruiter headaches, add candidate fraud, according to Employee Benefit News. “Candidate fraud goes beyond embellishing experiences during an interview or on a resume,” Satish Kumar, founder of Glider AI, tells EBN. “We have seen everythings from deep fakes to lip-syncing.”
Deep fakes? Those would be digitally altered candidates who appear as someone other than who they are for online interviews. Yes, that’s weird in so many ways. Kumar says the most common form of cheating is using Google and other tools while taking skills tests.
The article, which is at the top of our list below of must-read stories for talent professionals, recommends that companies create clear guidelines about their hiring processes and their assessments and communicate them effectively to candidates.
Elsewhere in this week’s list, you can read why HBR says the most essential retention strategy is investing in managers; discover why a highly respected Stanford business school professor believes the recent layoffs in Silicon Valley stemmed from “social contagion”; and learn about the new AI-chatbot that can generate everything from click-bait headlines to snappy jokes. And don’t miss the interview Work in Progress has with Matt Sigelman, president of the Burning Glass Institute, in which he details the four skills with the greatest potential to disrupt the current workplace.
Here are the must-read articles from this week:
1. Deep Fakes and Lip-Syncing: How to Spot Candidate Fraud While Recruiting (Employee Benefit News)
2. To Retain Your Best Employees, Invest in Your Best Managers (Harvard Business Review)
3. Why ‘Copycat’ Layoffs Won’t Help Tech Companies — or Their Employees (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
4. The Remote ‘Helicopter Bosses’ Who Stunt Worker Resilience (BBC)
5. What Gen Z Can Teach Their Bosses About the Meaning of Work (Quartz)
6. What Drives Holiday-Season Hiring? These Crucial Skills Shape 10 Key Roles (LinkedIn)
7. Even in the Metaverse, Women Remain Locked Out of Leadership Roles (McKinsey)
8. A Leaked Amazon Memo May Help Explain Why the Tech Giant Is Pushing Out So Many Recruiters (Vox)
9. New Data Shows Demand for Recruiters Is Down, But Still Higher Than Prepandemic (LinkedIn Talent Blog)
10. The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT (The New York Times)
The must-listen podcast of the week:
These 4 In-Demand Skills Are Spreading So Fast, They’re Becoming Foundational (Work in Progress)
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