RECRUITMENT FRUSTRATIONS

I have decided not to continue with the appointment of the person I had in mind to be editor in chief of our new magazine.
As you know, BusinessWeek adopts the highest possible standards of journalism and ethics. This candidate, as it turned out, had lied several times on his resume about his experiences. Add to that some very negative comments from senior journalists we have spoken to and I am confident he is not the person for us.
The issue of falsifying details on a resume isn't uncommon in Thailand. A business colleague who works is recruitment said around 70-80 per cent of all resumes contain minor errors, while 10 per cent contain major or serious ones. That's scary. It means that anything up to three or four of the people I have already interviewed are not being honest with me. How do I know which ones without spending a lot of time checking their background?
The position of editor, and also that of the deputy editor, requires someone with a lot of experience. For the editor that experience must be at the highest level within business reporting. There may be only a handful of people in Thailand that will have the level of experience we need to satisfy the editors in New York, who must also approve these two key positions.
I have seen some good journalists, and over the next three days I am interviewing another 10 candidates. The problem, as I said, is finding the quality ones.