Hi, I’m Brad Smart, founder of Topgrading. This blog is mostly just to entertain you, but with one important lesson about interviewing. As a professional interviewer of candidates for top jobs, I have conducted thousands of five-hour interviews. And among those interviews, a few bizarre and even scary things happened. This blog tells you one …
My Scariest Interview – He Threatened to Kill Me! Read More »
You’re skeptical, right? I’ve made the case that human nature makes lying on resumes and in interviews “understandable” and widespread, so how can there be a solution? Well. ‘ol Doc Smart has just the potion for you – a “truth serum”. Blogs aren’t supposed to sell stuff, so I guess I have to give to …
Candidate Dishonesty in Resumes and Interviews: The Solution Read More »
After a brief hiatus where our blogs focused on Building Your A-Team in 2018, we are back to finish off a series on candidate dishonesty. Blog #1 in this series suggested that 40% of candidates lie to get jobs and Blog #2 showed the various lies that are told. This blog presents our research on …
Candidate Dishonesty in Resumes and Interviews: The Cost Read More »
The most common areas candidates falsify The first blog in this series presented research on the extent of dishonesty through the interview process. At Topgrading, Inc. we’ve conducted over 6,500 interviews and in our experience about 40% of resumes contain fiction and those 40% lie in interviews. This blog presents our findings on what candidates …
Candidate Dishonesty in Resumes and Interviews: The Findings Read More »
At some point in our career, we’ll be won over by a candidate who conceals their low performance by exaggerating their qualifications and performance on their resume and in interviews. We eventually realized we were conned because they failed to perform even close to how they portrayed themselves in the hiring processes. Candidates may bend …
Candidate Dishonesty in Resumes and Interviews: The Research Read More »