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Restaurant Industry News
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Tuesday October 24th, 2006 |
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Strategies for Assessing Exaggeration and Deception by Job Candidates - By Jim Houran
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It may be Halloween time, but children are not the only ones who may be wearing 'masks.' |
Job candidates predictably distort the way they present their competencies and credentials out of concern for making a favorable impression and wanting to be liked by hiring professionals.
These distortions, called social desirability biases, can be unconscious behaviors or they can reflect deliberate deceit. Behavioral clues to assess lying are too generalized to be effectively applied by most people. Rather, we outline a three-part strategy for due diligence on candidates that reduces bad hires resulting from erroneous information.
Each component of the three-part strategy can be useful separately, but the components are especially powerful when used in tandem as a system of checks and balances.
Click here ( Adobe Acrobat PDF file) to download the complete article.
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