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How to get the lying out of hiring
A process that rewards exaggeration would benefit from greater realism.
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At the interview stage, one task facing the firm’s recruiters is to winkle out the truth of what a person actually contributed to a project.
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The Economist
Hiring processes can be thought of as a battle between candour and dishonesty. You might imagine this is a simple fight between truth-seeking firms and self-promoting candidates, and to a certain extent it is. But companies themselves are prone to bend reality out of shape in ways that are self-defeating.
Start with the obvious culprits: job applicants.
