The most devastating thing I’ve ever seen in my life that has come from a recruiter or hiring manager is the following topic and consequent response, listed in Jason’s article:įinding diverse candidate pools to hire from:
(Some of you are going to stop reading at this point, which is sad, because discrimination in tech hiring practices is real, and you are in denial.) Speaking of tech, let’s talk about sexism and discrimination in hiring practices in the tech-world. This article by Jason Shen is eye-opening as per huge differences between hiring managers and applicants in terms of what they think about the hiring practice. All it takes is a little searching and there it is, black and white, clear as crystal. We can also see how not only is the hiring process broken, but the thought process of many employers is broken as well. “I keep getting rejected from jobs for which I’m qualified” will be on my tombstone when I’m dead at the ripe old age of 98 unless stress gets to me first. And Reddit is literally a treasure trove of content. Which also means your hiring practice is broken, since Zapier is objectively one of the most important tools you’ll ever use.
I also know how to apply this skill to marketing, and I’ll bet my sweet butt that many of your marketing managers had no idea they could glean topical information from Reddit, automated, to cast a net on trends for current content marketing initiatives before they read this article. The last time I scraped Reddit using Zapier and imported data on the keyword ‘depressed’ in the /r/Jobs forums it came up in the thousands upon thousands. Which is a job requirement for many of the marketing jobs I apply to. To hit the malaise of the underemployed or unemployed American worker home even harder, here’s a thing I did with computer things and data. And you don’t bother reading even 10% of the applications you get because you hired Jim from accounting’s second cousin Steve who only knows how to stick post-its on his forehead and shout “YOLO!”. You get too many applicants because the job market isn’t as good as people say it is. So they write random stuff that has nothing to do with anything and pick job applicants arbitrarily. Or, better yet and more realistically, your hiring manager (bless his or her heart) doesn’t actually know what the job entails. The requirements for the job are decidedly and irrevocably too high. And as I huff coffee, I realize in this moment, that the process of hiring is broken.Įmployers that can’t seem to hire the right candidate: the wages you wish to pay are most likely too low.
Let that sink into your brain for a moment while I huff some coffee. But I’ve been up since 3:30 am, on a Saturday no less, applying for jobs. I’m shooting myself in the foot right now. Fair warning: I edited it a bit for clarity. It may shine a more direct light on what’s been going wrong in job-land and may influence some change. This is going to end badly for me, possibly, but it may end better for you. It’s just not right to take that away from them. I can’t silence myself on the state of the hiring processes in America, because I’d be silencing the people who commented, and the people who upvoted, and all those that didn’t, but agreed in silence. As has Workey, a startup geared towards making as much of the hiring process anonymous as possible. I’m publishing it because Indeed staff like Erin Khoo have reached out and taken notice. The sentiments being: Your Hiring Process Is Broken.
And out of those 134+ comments, there are countless stories championing the sentiments of it directly. Which to the Reddit layman means 87% of people who voted on the article liked it. And the 12 people so far who have connected with me on Discord, email, reddit, and Linkedin over this topic. I’m publishing this because of the 134+ comments this post received on the platform (and counting). And now, knowing that underemployment, unempl oyment and the ills and ails of everything in between, is far too topical a topic, far too big a bruise, and far too vital a verse to leave hanging around in the ether that is Reddit comments, I have published it again. People are still asking for the article on Reddit at this very moment.ģ. I published this rant on bad hiring practices on an alt account because people kept asking for the article since the link was ‘dead’.