We use the resume to evaluate applicants and decide which one to invite for an interview. How does AccuHire help us make this decision if resumes aren the main decision point?
A. AccuHire’s I/O psychologists studied the process that recruiters and hiring managers use to evaluate resumes. Approaches varied from cursory reviews of resumes to using a checklist in order to bring some consistency to the selection process. We quickly concluded that a computer was the best resource for consistently assessing the suitability of each applicant against your position-specific criteria. A computer doesn’t discriminate, doesn’t get interrupted, and doesn’t fail to ask all of the questions. In essence, we didn’t eliminate resumes, we simply improved the process by structuring the resume and asking each applicant to respond to a consistent set of position-specific questions (position-specific “checklist”) in order to assess each applicant equally, fairly and instantly.
