Work Reform

Fuck resume scanners and the horse they rode in on. It is exhausting tailoring every resume to the job posting because you might get dinged if you don't use exactly the same words as what the job description says.

These softwares are purging resumes of perfectly qualified candidates without the human hiring managers ever knowing about it.

I was watching an astronomer's channel the other day and she brought up how automated much of the initial processes are for telescopes now. She said a similar thing, wondering if there is good information in that filtering that is never seen by the humans who view the "sanitized" end product. Any tool is useful as long as you understand its limitations and don't have blind trust. I fear that somehow most people are using AI with a blind trust of the "intelligence" part, not understanding that it's hardly perfect and often times very bad if misused. Or overused for everything.

I get some of the issues (not talking about pharmacies here) because if you hire remotely you get swamped with resumes, if you don't you only get the nearest people, not the best people.

Everyone loves to shit on HR in comment threads but if they have a series of processes that are well thought out they can be a benefit to employer and employee.