A long shortlist is the recruiter doing less work, not more.
A shortlist of ten is not a shortlist.It is a search that has been handed back to you.
What ten CVs really cost
Every CV takes about twenty minutes to read properly.Ten CVs is over three hours of a senior manager’s time.Then come the interviews, each taking two people an hour and a half.
What three CVs means
It means we did the reading.It means we met the person, tested the claims and wrote down the risks.It means you spend your time interviewing people worth meeting.
Three on average. Five at most.We are chasing quality, not mass.