*(not for those who can't handle straightforwardness well 🙂 ) 1️⃣ 🔴 Myth : Companies like passive candidates as they make better hires than active candidates. ✅ Truth : Since passive candidates are more difficult to find, this rings a bell for effort bias here – if you put in more effort to get something, it must be superior. No evidence shows that passive candidates are more skilled, more motivated, or more cost-effective hires.  ➖➖➖  2️⃣ 🔴 Myth : Companies are making hir

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Are you a marketer looking for a job and need help with your resume achievements? If you want to have an efficient data-driven resume, check and use these achievement 7 metrics and 7 examples I came up with below.👇 If you are a Marketing Director , you can use the achievements like these to write an efficient data-driven resume: "Successfully launched three new products in 2022, resulting in a 50% increase in sales revenue and a 20% increase in market share. Developed and

How to write your achievements as a recruiter or HR professional, and most importantly, what metrics should you include? Since this is my field, I dedicated comprehensive info on this topic to all my HR peers today. 😊 As a recruiter, I’m sure you have helped your employers find top talent and built high-performing teams many times. But when you need to quantify it on your resume – crickets. 🦗 The same goes for HR professionals who continuously make an impact on HR function

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