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The part I don’t get is that 6 months later I get responses to applications. I’ve talked to recruiters and the picture they paint is hundreds or thousands of re

The part I don’t get is that 6 months later I get responses to applications. I’ve talked to recruiters and the picture they paint is hundreds or thousands of resumes in the inbox. They keep shuffling their search criteria and sometimes someone interesting pops out. That doesn’t entirely make sense to me, but something is clearly quite broken, and it seems to be as much due to incompetence as fraud

daseiner1 2y ago
I’ll never forget getting a boilerplate rejection email from Lockheed Martin 13 months after I applied for an internship for the upcoming summer.
- b112 2y ago
  I'll try to upstage that! 20+ years ago I applied, and interviewed for a Federal Gov of Canada job. 18 months later they called me to tell me I got the job. I'd been at another job for 16 months! Glad I didn't take it. Government and traditional big corp are very stodgy, slow to change.
  - ryandrake 2y ago
    This one's not as bad but still amusing: I applied to a well-known telecom company that rhymes with "May Pee and Pee" and got to the final onsite interview, after which they ghosted me. Afterwards, I did the whole round of interviews at a different company, got hired, moved my family across the country, and got established in that new job. A few months later, I got an E-mail from the telecom company saying "We would like to interview you one last time. Please let us know when you are free." LOL
  - beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
    Gov of Canada, famously, has some of the most braindead slow hiring practices in the country. Their HR teams are incredibly bad at their jobs. It's genuinely astounding. Last I checked the time from application to starting your job could be anywhere from 9 to 18 months. Everyone, including the employees, know it, so everyone gets "Bridged In" through an internship or hires internally. The rules are totally different with internal postings and you can get hired in a week if you're a good candidate.

daseiner1 2y ago

I’ll never forget getting a boilerplate rejection email from Lockheed Martin 13 months after I applied for an internship for the upcoming summer.

b112 2y ago
I'll try to upstage that! 20+ years ago I applied, and interviewed for a Federal Gov of Canada job. 18 months later they called me to tell me I got the job. I'd been at another job for 16 months! Glad I didn't take it. Government and traditional big corp are very stodgy, slow to change.
- ryandrake 2y ago
  This one's not as bad but still amusing: I applied to a well-known telecom company that rhymes with "May Pee and Pee" and got to the final onsite interview, after which they ghosted me. Afterwards, I did the whole round of interviews at a different company, got hired, moved my family across the country, and got established in that new job. A few months later, I got an E-mail from the telecom company saying "We would like to interview you one last time. Please let us know when you are free." LOL
- beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
  Gov of Canada, famously, has some of the most braindead slow hiring practices in the country. Their HR teams are incredibly bad at their jobs. It's genuinely astounding. Last I checked the time from application to starting your job could be anywhere from 9 to 18 months. Everyone, including the employees, know it, so everyone gets "Bridged In" through an internship or hires internally. The rules are totally different with internal postings and you can get hired in a week if you're a good candidate.