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Originally Posted by Bob Dole
Unless something goes horribly awry, I completed my 3rd successful job interview in 30 years yesterday. I'm comfortably retired and applying for jobs far below positions I've held previously, and the process is ridiculous. And then you walk in to almost any retail space and it's filled with WTF employees.
I really don't understand how we got here.
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This will probably get me labeled as an angry old Boomer, but here goes.
The whole desire to de-humanize the interview process began some time ago, when HR(Talent Acquisition in some companies) decided it wanted to streamline the actually job they are paid to do, interview possible candidates for any open position. The genius that said "let's make a program that uses keywords" to filter thru potential applicants instead of taking the time to actually read the resume and see the true qualifications, that is the guy I want to choke.
Now, I get in this day and age companies get tons of resumes for job openings and the thought of having to sift thru all of them is mind boggling. But narrowing the key words to specific items really does de-humanize the person and doesn't take into consideration other skills that may match the qualifications.
I said this in another thread.....having lost out on good potential candidates (it's too long of another story to put in this long rant) I started making the HR team send me in one batch, the list of the possible candidates they chose to forward to me for further consideration.....and in another batch, send me those who they rejected on the first pass.
Funny thing....most of the candidates that I ended up hiring came from the second batch. And all of them actually turned out to be damn good associates.
Rant over...