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I hated this shit when I was on the job hunt. Turned a 5 minute application into a 30 minute one.
Then multiply that by a bunch per day.
I got frustrated and eventually just skipped any that did this. If my resume isn’t sufficient, why do you accept it at all? Just don’t take the resume, or don’t take the form. Pick. Not both.
Not worth it. The places that did this never called me anyway. Never.
My best job ever called me, went over my resume and expanded on it a bit, and offered me the job same day.
My second best job received my resume, said “You seem like a good fit, come in for an interview” and a week later did an informal vibe check interview before hiring me same day
My absolute worst job had this resume bullshit, 3 rounds of interviews and an unpaid training day before offering me half of what the website said; i only agreed because the alternative was $0 and eviction.
The problem is that resumes are extremely hard for a computer to parse. If you’re dealing with potentially thousands of applicants, you need to be able to weed out people who don’t meet the minimum requirements or else you’d be spending weeks reading resumes.
I’m aware of that and don’t care, that’s the problem of whomever is poorly and impersonally doing hiring.
If they don’t want thousands of applicants, there are tons of recruitment strategies that avoid that problem, like job fairs, employee referral bonuses, direct recruitment, and working with agencies for placements, to name only four off the top of my head.
If they want to send their ad to the wolves, they won’t get good results, but they will get a lot of them. They are also probably an exceptionally shit place to work because they can’t even recruit talent because they are “suffering from abundance” without resorting to screening out people who can’t do data entry or have better things to do than jumping through hoops.
Yeah cool. Good for them. Easily fixed problem, but everyone wants unicorn workers, so they don’t need any training, and that requires casting a very wide net and screening out the catch they don’t want.
Fuck ‘em.
they probably spend less money just spam posting thier listings online rather than to pay HR employee to do inperson interviews/or communications.
thats why the ATS/AI to automatically sift out keywords, wether or not its accurate. and likely automatically deny a number of people randomly til they get like 10 or a 100 applicants.
and then you dont even know which ones are expired or they ghost you anyways.