Stop Believing These Hiring Lies — They’re Costing You Jobs

These common hiring myths are wrecking your job hunt

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Everybody admits this: our current job market is not for the faint of heart.

That is what makes the persistence of long-believed (but rarely accurate) hiring myths doubly damaging.

Applying for and getting jobs is challenging enough. But you can make the process easier by busting some of the pervasive recruitment myths that you have been encouraged to believe — and that might be holding you back.

The job myths you believe without even thinking about it

Being unemployed (or even under-employed) can be an exhausting experience.

It’s also an experience that most of us who need a job try not to have on a regular basis. When we don’t actively need a different job, we tend not to think about how hiring and recruitment really works. As a result, we can easily fall prey to job-search myths that “everyone knows.” There are at least three of these myths that can cause problems for both potential employees and employers.

The first is that “hiring is just a numbers game.” You know this myth. Everyone tells you that you have to cast as wide a net as possible, and send out hundreds…