Waaaait why is it not in the incentives of companies hiring to automatically fix this? They instantly get better candidates for cheaper wages.

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RugnirViking 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

its an information and principal agent problem.

We don't know how to measure worker productivity -> its hard to even say what a good hire is.

We don't have good standardisation around whatever measurements we do take -> hard to say anything about hiring at all.

People are more interested in their own prestige than hiring the best option for the company -> too many candidates get hired in the wrong places.

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creshal 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Step one: Decision makers who can change these processes need to be aware of this problem. Many companies fail this simple task.

Step two: These decision makers must be held accountable for the success of the process. Many companies fail this simple task.

Step three: These decision makers must be willing to admit that they made a mistake, and risk loss of prestige and political capital. Guess how likely that is.

And the bigger the company, the worse it gets. It's a good thing we didn't go through 20 years of consolidations and mergers. Oh wait.

	▲	DrScientist an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There are two problems here - the volume of application spam ( which creates the need for automated filtering in the first place, and is now probably AI aided ), and the fact that there isn't a single decision maker. You have HR which decides to outsource filtering, and then the outsourced company who decides how it's done. The line managers actually trying to recruit are no where near this decision - indeed they don't share a common manager till you get to the CEO - who is too busy to care about this sort of stuff. In my experience the only way to fix this is to tell HR that you want the unfiltered CV list and do it yourself. The problem with that is if you work at a large well known company you'll get 100's if not 1000's of applicants for any job you advertise and most applicants don't appear to have even read the job description. So you are committing to a very large amount of work.
	▲	simianwords 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		True I agree and I think there must be some head of recruiting who is in the details who should be kinda held responsible for this.

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IshKebab 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, but they also hiring is so random already they don't care about it being like 3% better or whatever.