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Consider these facts gathered from a variety of studies by the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) and other sources:
- 63 percent of all hiring decisions are reached in less than five minutes of interview time. The next 25 minutes we spend does not change or improve the decision.
- Interviewers have less than a 15 percent chance of identifying lies from application information in an interview.
- Interviews predict job success only 14 percent of the time.
- Demographic variables such as age, race or gender influence interviewer judgments.
- 57 % of Generation Y users would rather use IM than email, compared with just 16 % of Gen-Xers. A growing trend, the use of social networking sites like Facebook.com, and the new BizBuzz , with over 16 million users are visited by over 55% of internet users aged 12 to 17. Of those users, over half visit more than once per day.
- 75% of Internet users aged 12 to 17, and 66 % of those aged 18 to 27 (Kidployees/Generation Y/Millennials) use Instant Messenger (IM) to communicate with others. Compared with only 50% of the next oldest group (Generation X).
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