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Would anyone older care to confirm or deny a related observation? It seems the Great Recession shattered many employeer minds to become absurdly entitled to the

Would anyone older care to confirm or deny a related observation? It seems the Great Recession shattered many employeer minds to become absurdly entitled to the detriment of even their own direct earnings let alone society. Things like demanding a pegasus-unicorn canidate after they consolidated two jobs into one with the exact oddball combination of skills and experience - and not just seeing it as a bonus target to ask for but holding out for months or years looking for them when they could have been making money by hiring two realistically available competent employees.

duxup 7y ago
I feel like there is some sort of weird world now where in some companies "hiring someone" is sometimes held hostage / run by people who despite their job title, made it their job not to hire people. At least for me when I worked at a very large company hiring someone and getting the go ahead was this opaque system that went back and forth with recruiters and HR and involved a lot people who did not know anything about the job... Later on I was looking for work and found myself in recruiter hell or corporate HR hell talking to these people endlessly on the phone about jobs that they clearly did not understand in any way and wasted my time endlessly. By the time I got to talk to someone at a company that was technical... I finally understood what the job was in a few minutes, they knew who I was, and after a sensible interview they offered me the job. Side note, big company I worked for was broken up and I was told I should apply for my old job back. Mostly because I liked my coworkers I applied ... and never got a call back because I didn't have a CS degree (folks inside the company figured that one out), for a job that very much doesn't need a CS degree... and a job that I did for 15 years and my coworkers all wanted me back... That seemed to confirm my theory that hiring has sort of lost its way / gone off track in a lot of ways.
- wonderwonder 7y ago
  That is indeed the issue. Recruiters are for the most part not technical so they just read words on the page. Does your resume have all the words on the page or doesn't it? If not, sorry you are not qualified. Its maddening and one of the reasons resume writing is so important. Quite often your resume is not even seen by a real person, its filtered through a word matching algorithm.

duxup 7y ago

I feel like there is some sort of weird world now where in some companies "hiring someone" is sometimes held hostage / run by people who despite their job title, made it their job not to hire people. At least for me when I worked at a very large company hiring someone and getting the go ahead was this opaque system that went back and forth with recruiters and HR and involved a lot people who did not know anything about the job... Later on I was looking for work and found myself in recruiter hell or corporate HR hell talking to these people endlessly on the phone about jobs that they clearly did not understand in any way and wasted my time endlessly. By the time I got to talk to someone at a company that was technical... I finally understood what the job was in a few minutes, they knew who I was, and after a sensible interview they offered me the job. Side note, big company I worked for was broken up and I was told I should apply for my old job back. Mostly because I liked my coworkers I applied ... and never got a call back because I didn't have a CS degree (folks inside the company figured that one out), for a job that very much doesn't need a CS degree... and a job that I did for 15 years and my coworkers all wanted me back... That seemed to confirm my theory that hiring has sort of lost its way / gone off track in a lot of ways.

wonderwonder 7y ago
That is indeed the issue. Recruiters are for the most part not technical so they just read words on the page. Does your resume have all the words on the page or doesn't it? If not, sorry you are not qualified. Its maddening and one of the reasons resume writing is so important. Quite often your resume is not even seen by a real person, its filtered through a word matching algorithm.