Job Market Issue - Lengthy Interview Cycles

 Job Market Issue - Lengthy Interview Cycles

Recent survey indicates that the average length of time for hiring for a new position has increased from 29 days to 48 days, an increase of 65.5%!! Why!?! To begin:

1. Too many resumes submitted for each role.

2. Hiring managers / recruiters / interviewers are having a hard time determining proper qualifications / credentials / achievements because AI driven resumes (according to the Harvard Business Review (HBR) constitute 68% of all resumes submitted.

3. Interviewing cycles are multiple rounds as companies attempt to minimize bad hires.

4. Economic, Geopolitical issues affect the job market and lengthen cycles.

5. Seasonality - Summer time hiring is always slower due to vacations / lack of available staff for training

Information about AI Interviews - Part 3

Information about AI Interviews - Part 3

Robotic, One-Way Interviews: Platforms like HireVue or modern automated screening tools ask you to record yourself answering prompts without a human on the other end to react. It feels impersonal and lacks standard conversational flow.

Hard to believe this companies really use these technology and then complain about bad hires.

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Information about AI Interviews - Part 2

Information about AI Interviews - Part 2

The terminology that you use during the interview should be weaved into your answers during the interview, just like on your resume.   Using the same terminlogy  "sales data analysis," "solution sales" "product marketing" program management," "Business Intelligence" as listed on the resume will yield a higher score within the algorithm.

"Bad Actor Recruiters" - Scammers

 Article about “bad actor” recruiters that I published today.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beware-fake-recruiters-how-identify-cyber-thieves-allan-brown-lgyuf

Information about AI Interviews - Part 1

Information about AI Interviews - Part 1

I will be concentrating my posts for the next couple of days on AI video interviewing.  An important topic that job hunters need to embrace, like it or not.

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AI video interviews is based on a complex scoring system, based on  speech patterns, vocabulary (e.g., checking for specific industry or culture-fit keywords), industry jargon, energy of your voice in your responses, facial expressions, eye contact and more.  The algorithm is also based on scripted answers, whether the answers come from written notes or from an AI-assisted software tool. 

Some interviews are highly impersonal (one-way pre-recorded answers to real-time conversational agents, ranking your performance before a human recruiter ever views your profile. If the process sounds awful and dehumanizing...well, it is...

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Is your Resume Flawed - Reliance on Job Titles

 Is your Resume Flawed - Reliance on Job Titles

While job titles are important (I could and will write about this in coming posts), the hiring manager will likely understand the functions you perform. In short, she / he knows what sales people do, what IT project managers do, what servers do. What they want to see are your successes / accomplishments:

1. Grew account base from 10 to 30.

2. Planned and managed a $250K software migration

3. Check average per person was 20% hiring than other staff.

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Get the point?

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AI in Recruiting

93% of Fortune 500 HR teams have started using AI tools to streamline recruitment tasks? Yet fewer than 1% say they are fully AI-ready. At best, this gap means most HR teams aren’t maximizing value from AI. At worst, it’s like driving a car without a license: increasing risk and the chance of costly mistakes.

Source: Savilleassessment.com

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Resumes - Inconsistent with Industry Jargon.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Resumes - Inconsistent with Industry Jargon.

There are plenty of reasons why you should not use an AI generated resume. I have been posting this information for the last several business days and will continue to post the issues (pro and con) about AI resumes

AI-generated content can sometimes include factual errors or phrases that don't align with the terminology used in your industry, let alone your actual experiences. Therefore, you must proofread your resume to avoid confusion / making your resume read like it was AI - written, which is a big NEGATIVE in the viewpoint of hiring managers and recruiters who want to read resumes written by people, not a robot obeying an algorithm.

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Submitting AI-generated Resume Will Usually Result in Rejection

Submitting AI-generated Resume Will Usually Result in Rejection

Here is a good reason not to submit an AI written resume:

Immediate Rejection: AI tools rely on predictable language patterns, they produce generic "word salad", which will be void of your successes, your writing theme, perhaps including false claims of prowess as related to your skills.  The document will have unnatural, sometimes weird layout and format - easy for the "eyeball" and technologies designed to ID AI-generated documents.

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Another Reason Not to Use AI-Generated Resumes

Another Reason Not to Use AI-Generated Resumes

Resumes that are written with artificial intelligence (AI) software technologies will scan the job description of choice, then will do by whatever means possible to use each keyword (if all the correct language can be appropriately identified), usually in excess.  The result is content that does not read well, taken out of context and lacks any similarities of how a person would write use the written word in a normal environment, making the text clunky and unnatural.  

The sentences / phrases usually overuse the same prompts, the key words are overused and the resume will look like a job description, lacking accomplishments, not to mention requirements to pass most applicant tracking systems (ATS).

RESULT - Hiring managers can ID the origin of the documents, resulting in disqualification.

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Successful People (Quote) - J.W. Marriott

Successful People (Quote) - J.W. Marriott

“Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they never quit.” —J.W. Marriott

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