Comment by creshal
5 hours ago
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.
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.
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.