It has long been known that hiring right sets the foundations for great results. Whilst this isn’t to take away from excellent internal training and induction processes, starting with a higher calibre candidate increases the effectiveness of all your post-hire strategies (you do have them, right? …Right?). First, as the author, as it does become relevant, full disclosure: I am in the older category, being in my Forty-Thirteenth year. Whilst many say this shouldn’t matter in a recruitment process, an experiment we undertook recently indicated otherwise.

The Age Experiment in Recruitment

Our experiment was to send through some resumes to professional resume companies for feedback and also to send them to professional recruitment companies for feedback. The feedback we received from the experiment is the basis of this article and confirms why we still use ‘ancient’ (quoting here) methodology in our recruitment process.

Please note: We did not assist or change any of the resumes; the candidate wrote some, and some were professionally produced (the results of which are another story).

Told you it would be relevant.