Business Bricks

Brickie Alex Woodroffe writes:

“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!!”

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.

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