Questions To Answer In The Age Of Optimized Hiring Analysis

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“ I was thinking, if they want to know about your personality, this is a little bit of an impersonal way. Wouldn’t they want to meet me in person?”(Ditson)

Kelly Ditson, a waitress and single mother, was on the hunt for a new, better-paying job. What should have been a quick process quickly became Ditson spending hours on a single application. She found herself staying up past 2am filling out applications, only being able to complete four before she was too tired to continue.

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In “Questions to Answer in the Age of Optimized Hiring: Do you trust data more than your instincts,” writer Eliza Gray questions the many new standards that employers are expecting from a person that may have the potential to hold a specific job. He goes

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