Can Recruiters Multitask? Research suggests not.

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Many people will tell you they’re great multitaskers — who hasn’t seen that in a cover letter? However, the work of researchers like Victor M. González, Ph.D., Gloria Mark, Ph.D. and David Strayer, Ph.D. indicates otherwise.

A cartoon of a businesswoman attempting to multitask.

Their studies in the areas of attention span and time management show that most of us are actually engaged in rapid task-switching rather than actual multitasking. True “supertaskers,” capable of simultaneously and fully paying attention to many things, are rare. In fact, when Strayer and his team asked 200 people to drive a vehicle while talking on the phone, doing math

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