Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms?

• lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  It’s even easier to present the form data in a human readable way.

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• bluGill@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The point is they are looking for different information and putting that information into the parts humans will read makes the humans more likely to reject you.

  Sometimes humans and the machine care about the same thing, but when there is a difference you don't want the humans to reject you for having information the machine needs.

  Last time we were hiring my boss gave me 50 resumes to read and half an hour to get the job done. Not only is that less than a minute each, but the ones I forwarded on got 3-5 minutes (as did 1-2 rejects), if you want to be hired you need to capture my attention in a few seconds - anything that won't capture my attention needs to not be on the resume even if the machine needs it.

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  • Triasha@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sounds like your employer doesn’t give you enough time to actually do the work, just barely enough to to do it “good enough.”

    It’s probably even worse for the people you hire.

    They say we are going to become worse off as population decline tightens the labor market and I am fucking here for it. Maybe when you only get 10 resumes you will be given a chance to actually read them.

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    • bluGill@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The labor market isn't going to decline that much in our lifetime.

      I'm reading 100 resumes because they got past the automated scan system. I interview about 5 because an interview requires a lot of investment on our part. Interviewing 100 people means we can't get anything else done. My job isn't to hire people it is get engineering work done.

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  • Lehmuusa@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    they are looking for different information

    I have not encountered an electronic form that would ask for information not included in my CV. What would such information be?

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  • EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You can defend shitty late stage capitalism hiring practices all you want, there is still no reason to put in the information twice

    Capturing your attention is completely irrelevant to the discussion of whether computers can read a normal resume when they don’t ask for any additional information not found in the resume.

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