Comment by tchaffee
2 years ago
Can you reassure me then with the data that backs up your claim? Because in my very long career I've seen a lot of people use heuristics when deciding who to follow up with.
"According to a 2018 CareerBuilder survey, 70% of employers check out applicants’ profiles as part of their screening process, and 54% have rejected applicants because of what they found."
HR are not going to reject an incredibly experienced senior guy with a CV as long as your arm because of the title of a blog post. Your quote doesn't even suggest they would, and I'm not going to cite any evidence because it's honestly just a patently absurd proposition.
HR will definitely reject someone because of the title of a blog post. When you have a pile of a hundred CVs and two openings, you disqualify quickly.
I'm basing this on real world experience.
If you're letting HR who have no idea what they're doing, go from "a hundred CVs" to "two openings" you are bad at your job.
HR's job, like legal, or many other departments, is to facilitate what you actually do which in this case means work like chasing references and ensuring the candidates have somebody who can answer stupid logistics questions without bothering the interviewer, not figuring out who is the best fit for any particular job, that's the job of the people making the hiring decision.
Maybe if you're hiring fifty people to stand outside in the rain holding signs you can let HR pick who gets a job. Picking software engineers, especially if you actually care whether they're any good, is not the purpose of an HR department.
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