Today, there is a 1% hit rate, meaning 300 resumes receives three callbacks, says Darnell Clarke, corporate hiring manager and author of Employmentology: A Practical Systematic Methodology of Finding Employment.

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There are also a number of systematic flaws in the methodology, which you may need to correct for.

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