This week on The Recruitment Flex

Cheaters never prosper. An Osaka man was arrested after bragging on social media about his 95% pass rate for taking recruitment assessments online. 

Ex-twitter staff will pollinate the growth of the tech companies they join, it's how the next greatest technologies are born.

Recruiting Insights

• IRobot inspired Amazon to clone their good workers by using AI to sift through resumes and surface those who match the ideal profile. Reportedly taking the mundane out of resume screening; warning, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

• The consequences of letting your legal department drive salary transparency in your job advertisements are being played out in NYC. 

• Monster.com is being erased in APAC, ME & parts of Europe, the ogre has shrunk to a minion. 

• If layoffs are the knee jerk reaction of your company to cut costs, in the long run, it has the opposite effect. Beware of the “Turnover Contagion”, a well known fact, even a small % of people being laid off can drive a 25% increase in resignations.