Posts tagged Recruitment from the Zen Job CV team.
A practical reference for building boolean strings, the five operators, how to tune a query, and the honest line between where boolean wins and where it loses good people.
Most screening problems trace back to the criteria, not the reading. Here is how to choose must-haves and nice-to-haves that are evidenced, predictive, and fair.
Comparing several candidates from memory rewards confidence and familiarity, not fitness. A scorecard fixes it. Here is how to build one and compare fairly.
Sorting CVs is triage, not judgement. Set two or three must-haves, sort into yes, maybe and no, and read properly only the survivors. Here is the method.
Near-miss candidates are your warmest pipeline for the next role, and most teams throw them away. Here is how to capture, consent, and reopen them.
There is no single EU number: retention is the recruitment process plus the claim window, then delete. Four weeks in NL, about six months in the UK and Germany.
The four things a fast CV scan should check, why ten seconds should sort and never reject, and how to let a tool do it at scale without breaking the rules.
A calm, defensible way to get from a flood of applications to a ranked shortlist in an afternoon, without silently dropping good people.