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Why Unpaid Trial Tasks Are Sabotaging Your Hiring
Episode 39 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo digs into the hidden costs of unpaid trial tasks in recruiting. Lucas and Luna cite a 2025 study by the recruiting platform Applied showing that companies requiring unpaid 'test projects' lose 34% of in-demand candidates before the interview stage. They contrast this with a case study from Buffer, which replaced trial tasks with a paid, two-day simulation and saw a 22% increase in offer acceptance rates for senior engineers. The hosts also discuss legal risks — the Department of Labor's 2024 crackdown on unpaid work trials under the…
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