The interesting thing is that this situation has finally become critical enough that people are taking action. > Nearly nine out of 10 executives surveyed for

The interesting thing is that this situation has finally become critical enough that people are taking action. > Nearly nine out of 10 executives surveyed for the report said they knew automated software was mistakenly filtering out viable candidates, with some saying they were exploring alternate ways to hire candidates. This issue has been well known among technically skilled fields, with tricks like aggregating technical experience up into larger numbers by writing it like "X years programming experience including: Framework A, Framework B, Framework C" having become no longer a trick but normal practice well over a decade ago. Everyone knew it was stupid but if your online job form gets 6000 applicants what else can you do? But it's clearly reached a point where the automatic filtering has become an unsustainable mechanism and companies are reacting. What I find wished they had asked is what alternatives are those companies exploring? Who is building alternative hiring pipelines? or are we seeing a rise in "I hired someone I knew" as an accepted practice?