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If a company has an HR department or is a recruitment firm, they are trying to do one difficult thing: filter resumes down to a small enough number to interview
by smt88 5y ago
If a company has an HR department or is a recruitment firm, they are trying to do one difficult thing: filter resumes down to a small enough number to interview.
This is hard for them because they have no idea what they're doing. The people reviewing the resumes don't have domain expertise and are often among the least-skilled people in an org.
To make this type of activity scale, they essentially have to come up with universal filters that remove human judgment from the process. This includes removing people with gaps in their resumes.
Why doesn't this change? Because normally you have enough candidates that you can remove all the people with gaps and still have too many candidates.
When there's a labor shortage, as there is now, that doesn't apply. But a lot of recruiting operations haven't adjusted for the labor pool and are just ending up with too few candidates.
- vanusa 5y agoBut a lot of recruiting operations haven't adjusted for the labor pool and are just ending up with too few candidates. Hence the labor "shortage".
- smt88 5y agoI think the shortage is real and a combination of factors: 1) Fewer people are choosing (or able) to work. A lot of parents became stay-at-home parents out of necessity due to schools closing, being unable to afford childcare, hating their job, etc. 2) Nearly 1 million extra adults are dead due to Covid. It can be hard to replace an experienced, middle-aged worker, especially in more specialized roles. 3) Employers have not fixed recruiting (as you alluded): they're still filtering out good candidates, paying too little, failing to offer remote options, etc.