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You want a perfect candidate not a perfect CV. A perfect CV is highly likely to have lies and was made up based on the job ad, addressing every single requireme

• RajT88 3y ago
  Even without the lies, you can meet every single bullet point and still be a worse fit than someone who doesn't match every single bullet point. Maybe the gal or guy who fits every bullet point has a long career and quite broad knowledge. Maybe the gal or guy who doesn't fit every single bullet point is much smarter, a much harder worker with far more grit, and a quick learner. You end up hiring the first person who may be mediocre, and missing out on the second who may be a super high performer.
• apwell23 3y ago
  > A perfect CV is highly likely to have lies and was made up based on the job ad, addressing every single requirement bullet. Wouldn't "AI" also know this though. I would imagine AI is doing more than keyword match type stuff.
• antisthenes 3y ago
  If I sent out completely truthful CVs, I'd still be working a $15/hr data entry job or whatever. Obviously you can't fake it forever if you don't have the skills to back it up, but the reason people lie and embellish on CVs is because they know they are reasonably fast learners, so any skills mismatch can be quickly adjusted while on the job. Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, etc. etc. This pretty much became a necessity since ~2005, when IT demand skyrocketed and became mainstream and automatic candidate rejection and filtering became pervasive