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Wouldn't working as a recruiter be tedious at any company?
by bistro 9y ago
Wouldn't working as a recruiter be tedious at any company?
- Apocryphon 9y agoGuess you'd expect a company with Google's level of innovation to make any process less tedious.
- user5994461 9y agoWell, the author says all he has to do is type 2 letters to send invites and rejection, maybe with a few words to make it look personal. The process is streamlined, that doesn't make it more interesting.
- rising-sky 9y agoSounds like the recruiter would rather type the entire correspondence.
- komali2 9y agoAs an ex-recruiter, here's what my dream job would have been like: 1. No arbitrary process numbers. Job and cost numbers fine, but "10 calls a day" "5 BD calls a day" "20 resume sends a week" is stupid - would rather have a manager helping me make strategic decisions, using my time intelligently. 2. Automated bullshit. No more downloading resumes to upload to our system. We either pay linkedin and use that exclusively, or outsource somebody to fill out our own CRM (actually good CRM that has functional searching, not that Bullhorn bullshit that barely worked). That's all it would take. If a recruiter annoys you, it's probably because you're Candidate Call #9 of the day and she has to get to 10 or she'll lose her job.
- s17n 9y agoSure sounds like that person's job can and should be automated, leaving the remaining recruiters doing more interesting work.
- appleiigs 9y agoWouldn’t moving bits around or aligning pixels on a screen be tedious at any company?
- johan_larson 9y agoIf the recruiter is given specific hiring criteria that are hard but not impossible to satisfy, I could imagine looking for people who fit those requirements and persuading them to sign up would be a satisfying job of search, selection and salesmanship. But that's not what these Google recruiters are doing. They are trying to find any vaguely qualified people they can who are willing to dive head-first into the meat-grinder that is the Google interview process. And their job is mostly futile because that process will ultimately reject 90-95% of the candidates.
- Asooka 9y agoSounds like these recruiters could be replaced by a simple google search...
- johan_larson 9y agoIt's kind of weird they need recruiters at all. There is no more famous tech company than Google. You'd think they would get enough applicants just through their main website.
- nxsynonym 9y agoAgreed. I see this as a problem with HR and recruiting in general, not a Google problem. The only reason this is news at all is because Google is in the title. Replace that with any other company name and it just describes another position that could either be automated or outsourced.
- jxramos 9y agothat's spot on about piggybacking off of Google fame, funny how far riding another's coattails can take things.