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Applying for a job has always meant jumping through a few metaphorical hoops - but only recently have recruiters started asking people to jump through actual, real-life, hoops. Whether it's asking candidates to sing songs and gurn - despite both activities being conspicuously absent from the job
A recent study has revealed that British employers are increasingly vetting their candidates online. One in five will enter their names into search engines or visit sites such as MySpace or Facebook. And a quarter of these searches lead to rejections because of the very dubious information
't buy the varied experience people with different jobs can bring to a role," says Russ Badger, business manager for Manpower. "Candidates with several jobs offer an insight into how other companies work and a chance to know exactly how your competitors are behaving. Also, employers know
? Bosses are complaining that with these rules in force they can't find out what type of person a candidate is or whether he'd fit in with their company and staff. They also say that candidates adopt a false persona during an interview -in order to impress. But a recent study has found that bosses, too
related to the job. "Female participants had a stronger tendency than male participants to view the female candidates as less qualified than the male candidate . . . they also thought that the female candidate would fare worse in the future in her job than the male candidate," the study says