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So the fire hose is not the problem, but the fact that other people are often blocking or restricting the manner in which you access it. You use garden hoses b

So the fire hose is not the problem, but the fact that other people are often blocking or restricting the manner in which you access it. You use garden hoses because you can sneak them past the fire hose monitors and connect them to a tap in your team's office. Once you have tasted the water and selected an appropriate candidate, then you can smuggle them past the gatekeepers and get them hired. But that still leaves me with the question: if I want to get hired by you, how do I know which garden hose to use? I have seen sane, descriptive job ads that instruct interested applicants to ignore the standard application instructions and e-mail their resume to a particular address, with a specific keyword in the subject line. That indicates a simple filtering program, perhaps with an auto-reply function, that goes to someone not an HR gatekeeper. Some people out there are connecting their own garden hoses to the main reservoir, such that they control the flow rate and the filters. If the reason you don't use the fire hose is because your own company makes it unusable, that doesn't necessarily mean that other companies--especially small ones, with maybe one part-time HR employee--will also make it unusable.

mlthoughts2018 8y ago
> So the fire hose is not the problem, but the fact that other people are often blocking or restricting the manner in which you access it. I guess it's a matter of words and it might dissolve our question, because the way I see it, "fire hose" == "people are often blocking or restricting the manner in which you access it". At least, that's what I'm trying to mean by opening yourself up to the problem of managing a fire hose of incoming resumes. The platonic ideal of a large stream of resumes that I can easily slice and dice of my own accord, in practice, doesn't exist and would be so rare as to not factor into the discussion.

mlthoughts2018 8y ago

> So the fire hose is not the problem, but the fact that other people are often blocking or restricting the manner in which you access it. I guess it's a matter of words and it might dissolve our question, because the way I see it, "fire hose" == "people are often blocking or restricting the manner in which you access it". At least, that's what I'm trying to mean by opening yourself up to the problem of managing a fire hose of incoming resumes. The platonic ideal of a large stream of resumes that I can easily slice and dice of my own accord, in practice, doesn't exist and would be so rare as to not factor into the discussion.