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Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data

We compared recruiter judgments to actual interview performance.

Finally, my sample size wasn’t that big: I ended up with 716 data points in total, only about half of which came from recruiters (the rest came from engineers and hiring managers — my original hypothesis was that they might be better at the task, but I was wrong… everyone was bad at judging resumes). So, now that I’m CEO of interviewing.io, with access to a lot more data, resources, and a team of excellent academics at Learning Collider, we decided to run this study again, but with a more rigorous treatment and better conditions, to see if we could replicate the results. Get a LinkedIn Sales Navigator account Make a target list of hiring managers at the companies you’re interested in Figure out their emails (you can use a tool like RocketReach), and send them something short and personalized.

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