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Yesterday I was in an informal talk on one of these ‹let's-hang-out-and-drink-beer› kind of networking events about recruitment.
And it was depressing.
We all know recruitment is really broken, specially when there is any kind of middle person involved. But people working on recruitment were just joking about not reading anything outside the resume — no cover letter, motivation letter, or anything — using automation to find keywords on the resume and rejecting in bulk by the amount of keywords, and how the software is unable to read documents with more than one page or even using more than one column of text.
And these people get paid to do that?
Also the all narrative that you should create a character, and always be ready and upbeat — that also was a mirror in front of most of the audience — is very sad. Like trying to live the fake life of a social media persona 24/7.
Ironically enough one of the talks mentioned the concept of belonging. Well, I don't think I belong anymore.
- it's all down to the greed of fucking idiot management consultants and their misplaced faith in the 'power' of IT.hans_glib
- they push it as the future of business life, all the time taking massive commissions for placing failed third rate systems into the corporate worldhans_glib
- it's a fucking disgrace and these people should be thrown into a pit, have petrol poured on them and set on fire.hans_glib
- ^OBBTKN
- A recruiter had me rewrite my CV last year to insert as many keywords as possible, rush rush rush, and then I never heard from her again.i_monk
- Haven't dealt with a single one that was worth the time.i_monk
- Had a sit-down at Creative Circle back in March... haven't heard from them since July.i_monk
- /\ those placement agencies are garbage and the keyword stuff would explain why we get senior art directors sent our way for junior designer postings.ben_