{
  "id": 856967,
  "title": "A Manager Rejected a Top Candidate Over One Tool. It Backfired Immediately",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/a-manager-rejected-a-top-candidate-over-one-tool-it-backfired",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-14T09:07:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Inc.",
    "slug": "inc",
    "url": "https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/a-manager-rejected-a-top-candidate-over-one-tool-it-backfired-immediately/91390411"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Prioritizing specific software knowledge over proven experience is a costly hiring trap—and it’s costing companies months of lost productivity.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}