{"id":171559,"date":"2017-10-31T10:55:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T10:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/?p=171559"},"modified":"2020-12-24T07:04:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T07:04:46","slug":"infographic-top-10-screening-mistakes-made-by-recruiters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/infographic-top-10-screening-mistakes-made-by-recruiters\/","title":{"rendered":"Infographic: Top 10 Screening Mistakes Made By Recruiters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"2551\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-171560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/joblife_infographic31Oct2017.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/joblife_infographic31Oct2017.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/joblife_infographic31Oct2017-241x1024.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Takeaways:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li3\">&#8211; 79% of business hired candidates that had\u00a0<b>exaggerated<\/b>\u00a0their CVs\/r\u00e9sum\u00e9s, whereas\u00a0ignoring an overqualified candidate can cause harm, as there is never a perfect match.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\">&#8211; Too many recruiters don\u2019t ask the\u00a0<b>right questions<\/b>\u00a0in interviews \u2013 they ask superficial questions instead that waste time \u2013 however an interview only increases the chance of finding the best candidate by 2%, so should not be the only aspect of recruitment.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\">&#8211; Recruiters need to get a clear idea of respondents\u2019 personalities or\u00a0temperaments\u00a0before interviewing, and also need to check references!\u00a025% of recruiters don\u2019t\u00a0<b>check references<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 which is a BIG mistake.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\">&#8211; A good\u00a0<b>communication\u00a0strategy<\/b>\u00a0between your hiring team is crucial to gain a perfect recruitment result.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\">&#8211; Taking a candidate on simply from the r\u00e9sum\u00e9 because of\u00a0<b>lack of time<\/b>, can increase turnover costs and cause more harm than good.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\">&#8211; A\u00a0<b>vague job description<\/b>\u00a0means more job applicants, and recruiters need to ensure they sell the company to the candidate to make them excited and interested.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takeaways: &#8211; 79% of business hired candidates that had\u00a0exaggerated\u00a0their CVs\/r\u00e9sum\u00e9s, whereas\u00a0ignoring an overqualified candidate can cause harm, as there is never a perfect match. &#8211; Too many recruiters don\u2019t ask the\u00a0right questions\u00a0in interviews \u2013 they ask superficial questions instead that waste time \u2013 however an interview only increases the chance of finding the best candidate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171562,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171559\/revisions\/171562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}