“Is a job interview really an exercise in deception?” The Wall Street Journal recently asked this question to career coaches and researchers and found that, unfortunately, the answer may be yes. One researcher, Robert Feldman, author and professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, estimates that candidates tell an...

In this week’s list of our must-read articles for talent professionals, you can find spotlights on two staples of the hiring process: resumes and job descriptions. Over at the Harvard Business Review, David DeLong and Sara Marcus imagine a world without resumes that embraces “open hiring.” “This approach,” they write, “which eschews resumes, interviews, and...

“To truly make the industry more inclusive,” writes Bhaskar Chakravorti for the Harvard Business Review, “tech companies need to let go of their geographic biases and change the way they recruit, organize teams, and allow employees to work. As companies have moved to remote work during the pandemic — and possibly forever — tech companies ought to envision a...