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Articles on hiring trends, startup realities, and voice-behavior science, written by the team at Mappa.
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HR Tech Trends42 percent of people who quit say it was preventable
Four in 10 leavers think someone could have kept them.
HR Tech TrendsYour low turnover might be hiding job huggers
Low turnover is a fact about the market, and the BLS data shows it clearly. Whether the people inside want to be there is a separate question, and no quit-rate dashboard answers it.
HR Tech TrendsEveryone says they hire for skills. The hiring data disagrees.
Employer after employer has announced that a degree is no longer required.
HR Tech TrendsFear of a bad hire is slowing down your hiring
No hiring team sits down and designs a five-round process. It builds up in layers, each one a reasonable response to something that went wrong. One bad hire adds a skills round.
RecruitingThe leadership style that works for half your team, and backfires for the other half.
Assertive, decisive, take-charge leadership gets described as good leadership, almost as a default. The research says it depends entirely on who's being led.
HR Tech TrendsAI didn't invent resume fraud. It just industrialized it.
People have always shaded the truth on a resume. What changed is the scale, the speed, and in some cases, whether the person in the interview is even real.
HR Tech TrendsAI made applying easier, and hiring harder.
A few years ago, a recruiter filling a role might have reviewed around a hundred applications. Today, that number is closer to 300 per hire.
RecruitingCandidates are mad at AI. False: they're mad at not knowing.
Recent industry research on candidate sentiment found that only 19 percent of candidates want less AI in hiring.
Building ProductThe eternal search for our other half (and what the science covers)
We don't have the research to tell you who to marry. But the same science tells us a lot about who you should work for.
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