I started a successful recruiting software company about two years ago. I have learned many things about the industry and recruiting. Some from our own analytic

I started a successful recruiting software company about two years ago. I have learned many things about the industry and recruiting. Some from our own analytics (on any given day we get an enormous amount of job applies coming in to our system) and others just passing observations (talking to recruiters, staffing firms, and corp hr). Three things that I have learned ... job hunters are desperate and will do surprising things to get a job (more so for bad candidates), every recruiter seems to think they have some secret trick for filtering candidates and finally companies in general love to make candidates go through an enormous amount of illogical jump-through-these-hoops, quack like a chicken, stand on one leg steps as possible. While I appreciate the writers intent trying to help candidates I also think he is massively underestimating people looking for jobs. They are not dumb and if it takes a question as simple as that during an interview to make some determination on hiring perhaps some better filtering needs to be done prior (ie checking them out on linkedin and looking at their resume/application).