How to beat the system to get a better job
According to the Department of Labor, 235,000 more people got jobs last month. While impressive job growth, the quality of these jobs and how they got them is what should matter. To get a sense of this it's worth reviewing the details in a comprehensive study just released by Lever – a hiring management system used by small and mid-sized companies around the world – that describes how their 600+ smaller clients hired 15,000 people.

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The big news is that 1.5 million people applied for these 15,000 jobs. That's only 1% of the total. So if you're a job seeker it's pretty depressing news. However, digging deeper into the numbers tells a different story.