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Entire HR Team Fired After Manager Uses His Own Resume To Prove Their System Is Auto-Rejecting All Candidates Says Reddit User.
Fixed the title of this useless article.
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Submitted 1 month ago by TheBat@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
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TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The amount of time recruiters contact me after i decline with “I had no idea you had [insert qualification started clearly on my resume] experience” is 100% of the time.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If all human resources was being part scam and part class warfare on purpose, it’s not clear what they’d be doing differently
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
One of my favorites was the one that contacted me saying that my experience at Microsoft made me an ideal candidate. They never responded after I pressed them for specifics.
I have never worked for Microsoft.
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I used to have the title “system administrator” in my resume. I guess recruiters were just going off of single keyword searches because I’d get all kinds of emails about unrelated administrative positions like “social security administrator.”
My favorite example was when I got invited to apply for the position of “ocean administrator.” I looked it up at the time and it seemed to be about directing shipping traffic, but it’s more fun to imagine that I would have been in some way directing the ocean itself.
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I was rejected for a Master. I asked to know why and they told me it was because I needed a bachelor degree to apply.
I had two. At the very top of my résumé. At least they accepted me after I pointed that out.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have a simple rule that’s worked out really well for me to avoid getting recruiters like that. If their name is foreign, I don’t answer. To be clear, this isn’t me “doing a racism”. If they are from a company I’ve worked with and know to be good I’ll still pick up. But generally if they have an Indian name, they are part of a resume farm and not paying any attention. I’ve also started seeing ones from Africa this year that caught me off guard. Tried to talk to a couple before I realized what was going on amd stopped answering any of them. What’s really great is when they use the exact same introduction message.
SirDerpy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You can claim it’s not racism a million times. But, that doesn’t change the truth of it.
I’m a natural US citizen of Indian heritage. I do the same thing as you: filter all recruiters with Indian names. It’s the only practical course of action.
The difference between us is I admit that it’s racism. I’m far less likely to fall down the slippery slope.
orcrist@lemm.ee 1 month ago
What’s really funny is that you don’t know whether a name is foreign. If you’re actually interested in determining that, we could write you a quiz, and you can take it, and see how you score.
It’s a big country, well I assume it is, I didn’t actually ask where you live, but you probably live in a large enough country where you just have no idea what normal names are, in the communities where you don’t reside.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I work as a contractor in Pharma/Consumer goods AKA the FDA/DEA controlled territory. If i ignored people who differ from my caucasian/Irish ass i would bea very broke contractor.
IMongoose@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I had a pre interview from someone from HR once and it was excruciating. They didn’t know wtf I was talking about and I had to repeat myself many times over for very well known tools in my field. Now that I am the one looking over resumes I would never want HR to screen anyone, because they can’t possibly know what makes a good candidate for every single position or even how to read qualifications correctly.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A good HR prescreen asks more about the fitment/personality of the person. I still think that should be up to the hiring manager because too many HR depts suffer from dunning-kruger and have too much power for a generally way too petty group of people.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 1 month ago
HR is made up of lizard people. They have no business judging people’s personalities.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In my previous role I was leading a department, constantly needing to hire people. After some terrible initial experience, I didn’t let HR touch any of the CVs in the system, nor give a call to anybody, I started doing evertyhing myself. I was much faster in hiring than my peers, and good candidates also responded much better to a manager calling them. It takes effort, but shortens hiring time and improves the process a lot. There are of course limits, I was doing this for 1-3 open positions at a time, no manager could do it for 10, but it was working for me.
Unless they have a dedicated HR person for a department/area that really learns the business and specializes, they are not going to be able to help hiring much.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Short version: Reddit commenter says their resume system was automatically rejecting all candidates because it was looking for familiarity with the language “AngularJS” instead of “Angular”.
orcrist@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I think the point of the article is not that there was one word mistakenly written, but that an entire department lied for months and never bothered to test their system, and that they felt it was normal to do so. In other words, the problem here was the human factor. Typos are going to happen no matter what you do, and if you’re not planning around them then you suck at your job.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sure, thanks for highlighting that. I wasn’t implying anything about the lesson we should take away, just that the article didn’t seem particularly information dense, it was mostly recapping a reddit comment.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not about auto rejections, but inept HR…
My favorite is in the earlier days of iOS and Android, like 5 years in kinda thing, there were job postings that required 8 years, specifically in Android or iOS, not just 8 years of development experience.
okamiueru@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Requiring 8 years of any particular tech is ridiculous in of itself. If you haven’t learned what there is to learn in 3 years, you won’t learn any more in the subsequent 5.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah but its a shitty tactic to pay less. “We wanted X years, but you have X-Y years of experience, so we can’t give you the high end of the pay scale”
abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 1 month ago
The manager used his own resume. They were looking for candidates with Angular experience. Ergo this is a manager with tech skills.
I shudder to think what would happen with a non-tech manager - likely they'd give up and close the position after not finding anyone, without ever questioning the process.
Donut@leminal.space 1 month ago
Why is this a news article? It’s a reddit post. And while I like to take things at face value, believing a reddit post is another level of gullible.
saddlebag@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This author and site should be ashamed for posting this is as real. Pretty much everything on the front page now is generated content by bot accounts with a single post that got tens of thousands of upvotes.
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
lemmy became reddit in record time because the admins can’t be fucked to police their fuckdamn mods
Shrp91@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That entire site is about the same quality if not worse.
FlaminGoku@reddthat.com 1 month ago
The fall of Rome came from the lack of original thought and everything being derivatives of derivatives.
We’re here now.
krashmo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s a retarded description of the fall of Rome.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Uhh… what? Not saying that those things aren’t real today, but are you sure they were the cause of the fall of Rome? lmao
vaquedoso@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I feel that’s a line taken from Foundation by Asimov, describing the fall of the galactic empire
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
I 100% believe you