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A high-stakes guessing game where both sides lie until someone signs.
means The act of taking someone on for paid work — selecting a person from candidates and bringing them into a job.
from From the verb 'hire,' which goes back to Old English 'hyrian,' to engage someone for wages, tied to the noun 'hyr' meaning payment or rent. It shares deep Germanic roots, with cousins like Dutch 'huren' and German 'heuern' (to hire, often a ship's crew). The '-ing' simply turns the act of paying-for-labor into the ongoing process of doing so — the same root that still lets you 'hire' a car or a hall, not just a human.
- gut bias
- Most decisions form in the first ten minutes
- resume gap
- Up to 75% of resumes contain false claims
- cost
- A bad hire can cost 30% of salary
- slow grind
- Average corporate role takes 44 days to fill
- name effect
- Identical resumes get fewer callbacks with certain names
goldman sachs analyst program — goldman sachs hires ~1,000 analysts annually from target universities
nfl draft — 32 nfl teams collectively hire 262 players annually through the draft