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Resumes Remain Hiring's Most-Used -- and Most Misleading -- Signal, New eSkill Report Finds

eSkill's 2026 Hiring Signals Report, based on an August 2026 survey of 1,056 U.S. HR professionals, finds 77.8% of organizations use resumes in hiring, yet 52% call them the signal most likely to be exaggerated or misleading. Skills assessments and structured interviews are the most trusted signals (43.9% each), while only 19.1% of organizations use work samples, though 52.4% rate them highly predictive. Fraud or misrepresentation detection is the most-wanted AI hiring feature (49.6%).

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