Okay, but you’ve just described virtually every job listing. I could point to three, at a minimum, tied to my own job. And my job (at least after 20+ years in the workforce) is the best I’ve ever had.
So much of this is just HR code-speak for “We needed to put something in the advertisement and just cribbed from another ad we saw elsewhere.”
It’s agencies all the way down. By the time the actual job listing is written it’s several levels of bureaucratic red tape away from anyone who knows what the actual damn job is. That’s why they ask for 5 years of experience in a technology stack that’s only existed for 2 months.
Is that a joke? There’s no fucking way me, or my team, or my manager, have any desire, or time, to sift through hundreds of resumes to fill a role. Even dealing with the few that make it through initial screenings is cumbersome.
As long as the base requirements are properly established by the team, and HR ought to be capable of filtering down to good-great candidates for any given position.
One of HR’s primary duties is to filter out all the people who resume spam postings or who just don’t qualify based on the requirements of the company or the hiring manager. When done, they give this resource of human candidates for the hiring manager to do their vetting.
As far as the job ads, a lot of it can be on a lazy hiring manager giving generic requirements or not reviewing/giving feedback on a posting. All it takes is a simple, “Hey, can you change that ‘soldering experience’ bullet to ‘SMD rework experience (down to 0402)’?” If the position is union-based, what gets put on the ad is largely decided by the union along with the legal department to make sure it’s all in line with the CBA.
Also, HR should be the last to see the applicant. Not the first.
Absolutely not.
My team opened up a position two weeks ago. Within the first 16 hours, we had seven hundred and forty nine applicants. Something like half of them didn’t even meet the base requirements, let alone looked like decent options
Okay, but you’ve just described virtually every job listing. I could point to three, at a minimum, tied to my own job. And my job (at least after 20+ years in the workforce) is the best I’ve ever had.
So much of this is just HR code-speak for “We needed to put something in the advertisement and just cribbed from another ad we saw elsewhere.”
It’s agencies all the way down. By the time the actual job listing is written it’s several levels of bureaucratic red tape away from anyone who knows what the actual damn job is. That’s why they ask for 5 years of experience in a technology stack that’s only existed for 2 months.
I wish HR would let the departments write their own job ads. Also, HR should be the last to see the applicant. Not the first.
Is that a joke? There’s no fucking way me, or my team, or my manager, have any desire, or time, to sift through hundreds of resumes to fill a role. Even dealing with the few that make it through initial screenings is cumbersome.
As long as the base requirements are properly established by the team, and HR ought to be capable of filtering down to good-great candidates for any given position.
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The legal department (if any) should be the last.
One of HR’s primary duties is to filter out all the people who resume spam postings or who just don’t qualify based on the requirements of the company or the hiring manager. When done, they give this resource of human candidates for the hiring manager to do their vetting.
As far as the job ads, a lot of it can be on a lazy hiring manager giving generic requirements or not reviewing/giving feedback on a posting. All it takes is a simple, “Hey, can you change that ‘soldering experience’ bullet to ‘SMD rework experience (down to 0402)’?” If the position is union-based, what gets put on the ad is largely decided by the union along with the legal department to make sure it’s all in line with the CBA.
Absolutely not.
My team opened up a position two weeks ago. Within the first 16 hours, we had seven hundred and forty nine applicants. Something like half of them didn’t even meet the base requirements, let alone looked like decent options