This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life.

I'm your host, Mac Pritchard.

I'm also the founder of Mack's List.

It's a job board in the

Pacific Northwest that helps you find a fulfilling career. Every Wednesday, I talk to a different

expert about the tools you need to get the work you want. As an applicant, you may find

the hiring process both mysterious and opaque. Former recruiter Claire Martin is here

to pull back the curtain and share her hiring secrets. She's the director of employer engagement

at Willamette University. Before joining higher education, Claire worked in human resources

and helped recruit hundreds of people.

She joins us from Salem, Morgan.

Well, let's jump right into it.

Claire, what are the biggest misconceptions you've seen job seekers have about recruiters?

Yes.

I have seen in my 10 years on the industry side a few different misconceptions.

And, you know, this definitely isn't the case for all recruiters. But I think in general, there

is a large misconception that we are not reviewing resumes and that AI has taken over our jobs.

And that is simply not the case in reality for majority of recruiters.

While we use various tools to aid in our review,

we are still individual people who are reviewing individual resumes ourselves.

I think there's also a misconception that recruiters may not generally care too much about the experience.

And I think it comes from a lot of frustration from the candidates of getting ghosted or just not getting any type of follow-up from their process, but a lot of

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