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Hiring Frustration #3: Exaggeration and Lies

Are you concerned that candidates are exaggerating and embellishing in your interviews?

In our workshops for hiring managers that we teach to improve hiring accuracy and effectiveness, the vast majority of hiring managers and executives will tell us that they believe 100% of all candidates exaggerate and embellish their accomplishments and achievements.

This feeling comes true when greater than 50% of all managerial and executive hires fail in their first 12 months (usually it’s in the first 3-4 months) due to the inability to achieve the desired results. This inability stems from exaggeration and embellishment in the interview. We documented this failure rate and the causes for the hiring failure in a major research project.

This is one of the top 8 hiring frustrations that hiring managers and executives face when attempting to interview candidates from outside their organization. Most hiring managers and executives would rather put up with average or mediocre employees that take the risk on hiring someone from the outside due to the fear factor of not being able to get through the interview exaggeration, embellishment, and lies.

Does this sound dysfunctional?

It falls into the category of “better the devil I know than the one I don’t” No wonder there are so many average, mediocre and poor performing employees in most companies. Every manager I’ve ever spoken to has at least one or two employees that are not living up to expectations.

How do you overcome this frustration of interview exaggeration and embellishment?

If you follow the steps of the Success Factor Methodology you’ll easily be able to conduct an effective interview and get to the truth every single time. We describe each of these steps on our website. We back up overcoming this frustration through a wealth of hiring improvement products and services. Some of the tools are simple, inexpensive and easy to implement. One tool in particular will dramatically raise the hiring accuracy of your hiring managers and executives – we’ve provided this tool for the last 20 plus years and many of our hiring managers consider it to be gem in our product catalog – we call it our Desktop Hiring Guide.

We also have a FREE Assessment for Hiring Managers and Executives if you would like to discover if your interviewing process can get to the truth and accurately assess candidates in the interview.

If you want to eliminate embellishment and exaggeration, you’ve got to do something different than you’ve been doing for the past decade. Start raising hiring accuracy now through the simple and effective methods of a proven system like the Success Factor Methodology.

Barry