Journal Bill Dawg's Journal: recruiting doesn't scale 2
DR made a post that I think is very true (so I upmodded it), but I also think it's very true that people just spam job postings with their resumes, no matter how unqualified or how poorly they match up to it. So what are employers supposed to do?
I have one answer: Job fairs. Having to get dressed up and haul your butt down to some convention center and stand in lines, vice sitting in your underwear whisking off electrons with the stroke of a key, separates out some of the less serious folk. Of those who show up, the idiots can then be quickly dispatched with a glance at their resume.
Batch your open positions together, be serious about filling them*, send a few people to do this for a day, and make your decisions after inviting some a few days later to the office for a second interview, to meet with the whole team. Git'r'done.
*This seems to be the hardest part of the recruiting process for companies.
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Don't bother using recruiters or job fairs. If every employer did this, it would be easy to weed out the slackers - they wouldn't have the initiative to show up at your business in the first place. Given that 80% of jobs are never advertised, and that half the remainder, while advertised, already have someone with an inside track, your chances of getting a job via resumes and recruiters is pretty crap since that only addresses 1/10 of all the jobs out there.
Anyone can send out a resume. The ones who depend
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Well thanks for the pick-me-up. Not everyone has a network of colleagues in the industry that they can use to find their new jobs. I don't trust recruiters, so I guess I'm only accessing 1/20 of the jobs out there. Fuck my life.
p.s. And the other problem with rampant puffery in resumes is that if you don't do it yourself, you look like said slacker, in comparison. I actually had a company hire me where the hiring dude, the CTO, said they thought I'd underplayed my skills on my resume. So maybe my resum