Hiring is not a test of endurance. It’s a test of judgment. The moment exhaustion outweighs evidence, hiring stops being a strategy and becomes a liability. Ethical hiring cannot be sustained on exhaustion.

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It’s time we have an honest conversation about something many of us in talent acquisition are seeing—and maybe even contributing to—the steady decline of candidate experience.

OVERQUALIFIED is never the actual reason an employer rejects a candidate.