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Gen Z Leads a 66% Surge in Self-Taught Job Skills, Creating a Verification Headache
From YouTube crash courses to TikTok tutorials promising “job-ready skills in under 10 minutes,” self-taught learning is exploding, and it’s beginning to reshape resumes across the country. A recent Express Employment Professionals-Harris Poll survey shows 74% of job seekers and 71% of hiring managers believe skills learned through informal online platforms are credible. Yet with nearly half of job seekers (47%) now adding these self-taught skills to their resumes, employers say evaluating them is
86% of US Hiring Managers Say AI Makes It Too Easy to Exaggerate Skills on Resumes
A new Express Employment Professionals-Harris Poll reveals a startling truth about today’s hiring landscape: job seekers may be stretching the truth on their resumes far more than they admit — and employers say they can spot the exaggerations a mile away. According to U.S. hiring managers, 80% say candidates' resumes don’t match their real-world skills at least sometimes, with 34% reporting it happens all the time or often. Meanwhile, just 22% of job seekers confess to listing skills they don’t actually
