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How to screen for the most promising candidates

Review CVs using a structured approach to find your ideal candidate

Operations

How to screen for the most promising candidates

The challenge

Resumes are used by most jobseekers all over the world, and resume reviewing is a key focus for hiring managers. It can be difficult to judge a potential candidate by a single sheet of paper, but a resume can help you efficiently compare many applicants to the posted job qualifications you’re looking for and find the most promising international talent for your market.

Your aim

Use a structured and consistent approach to reviewing resumes in your search for the best international talent for your company.

Learn more

There's a lot of room for unconscious bias to color the information. Research tells us that subtle indicators — names, clubs, addresses, school, previous employment, race, parental status, socio-economic status, etc — may unconsciously affect expectations and assessment of a candidate.1 Time pressure may also lead to unconscious bias and affect decision making.

  1. Bertrand & Mullainathan (2004), "Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination" ↩