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This low-quality shotgun approach (that these kitchens are using) remind me of the recruiting and offshoring plagues of the early 2000s. Recruiters were onced
by z9znz 4y ago
This low-quality shotgun approach (that these kitchens are using) remind me of the recruiting and offshoring plagues of the early 2000s.
Recruiters were onced skilled professionals, but they got replaced by people who spoke almost unrecognizable English and who basically spammed all day to find talent. They didn't even read resumes, so you would get calls (and later emails) for crap that was nowhere on your resume. This basically ruined what was once a very effective way of finding jobs and gigs. It took over a decade for this garbage approach to fade and real recruiters to reappear.
The companies hated it too, because they would get innundated with every resume one of these brainless recruiters would send. Companies couldn't find real talent due to the piles of unqualified candidates. That's not to say the candidates were bad, but they were not qualified for the particular skills the client needed.
Then the offshoring craze developed, and suddenly skilled developers were laid off en masse, with the more senior developers actually being tasked with training their offshored replacements. Predictably, most of the replacements were people with some basic training and absolutely no ability to think for themselves. The end result was about two decades of stalled progress in corporate software development and artificially depressed wages.
This restaurant scenario seems to be just another variation. One must wonder if this is a cultural thing. It seems obviously doomed to eventual failure, and like the other situations I described it will bring the actual good services down with it.
- civilized 4y ago> The end result was about two decades of stalled progress in corporate software development and artificially depressed wages. As a younger guy, I've always wondered why there are so many "fossil" legacy critical applications at my company. They can only run on a VM and appear unaltered from their last version in the late 90s / early 2000s. Pretty sure some of them can only run on IE6.
- blantonl 4y agoActiveX was one of the greatest stains on the Web to ever exist.
- ryandrake 4y agoI wonder if something along those lines would work in the traditional job search: Generate tens of thousands of brand identities (random name + random e-mail address) and mail-merge them onto basically the same resume, maybe with some minor wording perturbations. Flood companies with these resumes and then sit back and wait for one of your brands to slip through their hiring algorithms, and you got the interview. If you eventually get the job and they ask about the name, just say it was an old alias, and you'd prefer to go by [your real] name.
- chucksmash 4y agoAt some point around 2018, I ended up with an alter-ego named "Franklyn." I'm not clear what the origin was - if I set it up late one night to cause trouble, if someone else did it and tagged it with my email address as a joke, or if some resume scraping software borked something up. Anyway, Franklyn gets invited to interview for $320k/year roles now.
- z9znz 4y ago> if I set it up late one night to cause trouble Hehe, I might have done a thing like this late at night and not remembered the next day (for matters of simple tiredness to some level of inebriation). Personally it frustrates me when I get an email which says something like "We are very interested in you based on your experience in techs X Y and Z", where X Y and Z are not present on my resume or linkedin. That shows intent to deceive, and I think recruiters like that deserve to live long, unhappy lives (until they learn to act right).
- z9znz 4y agoBut if a company selects one of your resumes, and you sent many similar ones to each company, then the companies may wonder about remarkably similar resumes and then toss the batch out assuming it's BS. Of course it would also just make things worse, in that companies already tend to get innundated with garbage (or at least really not well aligned) candidates. This would just add more poop to the swimming pool. Eventually nobody wants to go near it, and the owners of the pool just turn their backs and find alternatives. This last point is another reason that networking and personal connections are almost always the best way to get job opportunities (often before they even reach the recruiters).