Job Applicants
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
the Knowledge Project 
My First Million 
Top Founders
4 statements about Job Applicants, every show
Kagan: 30% of job candidates are rejected because parsers cannot read resumes
“So what happens is, is that 30% of candidates who apply for a job, they get rejected not based on their skills, Or their resume, but because the technology can't read their resume.”
Parr: Candidates unable to speak passionately about their major make bad writers
“And if they can't tell me a story about something that they spent four years and hundreds of thousands of dollars on, then they're just not going to be a good writer because they're not interesting enough.”
Most job candidates do not actually know what they are good at
“Most human beings when they're applying for jobs actually don't know what they're good at. They know what skills they have, or at least people have told them they have. They know what jobs they've held, but they actually don't know what they're good at.”