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>At a Fortune 50 company I worked at, my boss got in trouble because he sweet-talked someone in HR to print out all the resumes they rejected and secretly deliv

by htrp 5y ago

>At a Fortune 50 company I worked at, my boss got in trouble because he sweet-talked someone in HR to print out all the resumes they rejected and secretly deliver them to him. I did exactly this, though I'm pretty sure I'm not your boss. As a side note, HR's insistence on doing the initial resume review and phone screens usually skews the entire recruitment process. I've had situations where HR gave me 20 resumes and didn't even look at the rest.

celticninja 5y ago
Our HR just checks if they completed the application correctly, i.e, included a CV and (if requested a covering letter). If they fail this bit they don't get to the sift. The sift of CVs/resumes (to whittle down for interview) is done by developers and so are the interviews.
- aj3 5y ago
  This sounds like an amazing hiring process. Hopefully it becomes more common.
  - fridif 5y ago
    A CV should not be necessary Edit: My apologies everyone. I actually read this as "cover letter" instead of CV. I agree a resume (as noted below) should be required, but CV (academic style) is probably a US term not applicable here. Sorry!
    - celticninja 5y ago
      How else can i whittle down 30 applicants to 5 or 6 to invite to interview? edit: saw another response which said a cv was a resume, this is correct. In the UK we use Curriculum Vitae (CV) instead of resume. They are the same thing. Not sure what you may have thought a CV was, however I would be interested to know.
      - muffinman26 5y ago
        In the US a CV is a comprehensive list of all previous work in the field, while a resume includes only the most recent/relevant experience. The term is primarily used for academic positions, where it includes a listing of all publications.
    - ajford 5y ago
      They could be meaning a resume as used in the US. Outside of the US (or at least in a number of European countries) what is called a resume in the US is referred to as a CV (though my understanding is that it's generally a few pages long, not a single page). Though this comes not from first-hand experience, but a lot of in-depth conversations with friends/coworkers from overseas, so I might be wrong here.
- jbay808 5y ago
  Our HR was like this too! They were amazing. They sent a spreadsheet with each applicant in it, greyed out the ones who didn't follow instructions, and bolded the ones that they thought I should read first based on how close their applications were. I read all of them, even the greyed out ones, until I'd read enough to trust that the HR team's filter was well-calibrated, and I also let the HR team know when they got it right/wrong so they could improve their filtering process. Overall it worked great but I understand that such functional HR teams are the exception, not the rule.

by htrp 5y ago

celticninja 5y ago

Our HR just checks if they completed the application correctly, i.e, included a CV and (if requested a covering letter). If they fail this bit they don't get to the sift. The sift of CVs/resumes (to whittle down for interview) is done by developers and so are the interviews.

aj3 5y ago
This sounds like an amazing hiring process. Hopefully it becomes more common.
- fridif 5y ago
  A CV should not be necessary Edit: My apologies everyone. I actually read this as "cover letter" instead of CV. I agree a resume (as noted below) should be required, but CV (academic style) is probably a US term not applicable here. Sorry!
  - celticninja 5y ago
    How else can i whittle down 30 applicants to 5 or 6 to invite to interview? edit: saw another response which said a cv was a resume, this is correct. In the UK we use Curriculum Vitae (CV) instead of resume. They are the same thing. Not sure what you may have thought a CV was, however I would be interested to know.
    - muffinman26 5y ago
      In the US a CV is a comprehensive list of all previous work in the field, while a resume includes only the most recent/relevant experience. The term is primarily used for academic positions, where it includes a listing of all publications.
  - ajford 5y ago
    They could be meaning a resume as used in the US. Outside of the US (or at least in a number of European countries) what is called a resume in the US is referred to as a CV (though my understanding is that it's generally a few pages long, not a single page). Though this comes not from first-hand experience, but a lot of in-depth conversations with friends/coworkers from overseas, so I might be wrong here.
jbay808 5y ago
Our HR was like this too! They were amazing. They sent a spreadsheet with each applicant in it, greyed out the ones who didn't follow instructions, and bolded the ones that they thought I should read first based on how close their applications were. I read all of them, even the greyed out ones, until I'd read enough to trust that the HR team's filter was well-calibrated, and I also let the HR team know when they got it right/wrong so they could improve their filtering process. Overall it worked great but I understand that such functional HR teams are the exception, not the rule.