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> every month for the last year have stood out where they are taking every candidate through the whole interview process as an exercise to train their current staff on interviewing with no actual intention of hiring candidates

how do you know about their intention? Why they would waste time on their employees training if they don't want to hire anyone?

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> Why they would waste time on their employees training if they don't want to hire anyone?

When the market is hot, it's hard to get applications from experienced candidates. During down markets like right now, there actually are experienced candidates open to interview at all, so you build skills on how to interview experienced candidates so you are ready when you really want to hire.

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