Also, all of her memos were in Papyrus!JennyB wrote:Hey, I was good to the people I supervised! I let them leave early and bought them lots of snacks!Silent Majority wrote:I'm glad I didn't get that job.JennyB wrote:I did once immediately dismiss a candidate because their resume was written in comic sans.Dr. Medulla wrote:The point is, however, if they can eliminate a candidate without even looking at the resume, that's all the better from their point of view. It's about making the hiring process as time efficient as possible, an 0 seconds is always better than even 15 seconds. Just like SAT scores—cut off everyone below a certain number means never wasting time looking at them as individuals.Wolter wrote:
But having worked in a hiring position before, it's actually fairly easy to reject a resume out of hand.
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I'm hitting the part of the job search where I have two options:
1. Apply for boring admin positions I'm somewhat overqualified for that pay just barely enough to make it worth the effort.
2. Apply for awesome positions I'm definitely massively underqualified for that I probably won't get, and would probably get let go from fairly quickly if I were actually hired.
Hooray.
1. Apply for boring admin positions I'm somewhat overqualified for that pay just barely enough to make it worth the effort.
2. Apply for awesome positions I'm definitely massively underqualified for that I probably won't get, and would probably get let go from fairly quickly if I were actually hired.
Hooray.
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My boss was being such a colossal asshole yesterday that all I want to do is quit and become a doggy daycamp counselor.
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These days, they probably have an algorithm to sort through all the riff-raff.Dr. Medulla wrote:Part of all those hoops, I suspect, is to make it easier to reject candidates out of hand. If a company gets, say, 500 applications, they don't want to read all 500. Anything that can be done to funnel the pile into a smaller and smaller number that gets actual attention is desirable. Making people jump thru extra hoops can separate the serious from non-serious or, like the Van Halen red M & M rider, seeing whether people have actually read the instructions is another way to shrink numbers. It doesn't mean the company actually gets the best candidates on the short list, only that it makes the hiring process less time-intensive.
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I.E. people like us?Mimi wrote:These days, they probably have an algorithm to sort through all the riff-raff.Dr. Medulla wrote:Part of all those hoops, I suspect, is to make it easier to reject candidates out of hand. If a company gets, say, 500 applications, they don't want to read all 500. Anything that can be done to funnel the pile into a smaller and smaller number that gets actual attention is desirable. Making people jump thru extra hoops can separate the serious from non-serious or, like the Van Halen red M & M rider, seeing whether people have actually read the instructions is another way to shrink numbers. It doesn't mean the company actually gets the best candidates on the short list, only that it makes the hiring process less time-intensive.
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we're too punk for corporate america.BostonBeaneater wrote:I.E. people like us?Mimi wrote:These days, they probably have an algorithm to sort through all the riff-raff.Dr. Medulla wrote:Part of all those hoops, I suspect, is to make it easier to reject candidates out of hand. If a company gets, say, 500 applications, they don't want to read all 500. Anything that can be done to funnel the pile into a smaller and smaller number that gets actual attention is desirable. Making people jump thru extra hoops can separate the serious from non-serious or, like the Van Halen red M & M rider, seeing whether people have actually read the instructions is another way to shrink numbers. It doesn't mean the company actually gets the best candidates on the short list, only that it makes the hiring process less time-intensive.
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Bigger companies where submissions are done online, yeah, I'd bet on it. What I've told students thinking about applying to grad school, as ass-backward as it sounds, your aim should be to not give the admissions people a reason to reject you. That's what their intent is throughout most of the process—how do we make this pile smaller? So just don't have anything in your application that sets off some kind of a warning bell. If you make it to the final pile without being rejected, yay, you're in. Then, when it comes to scholarships or whatever, that's when you want to stand out amongst the survivors. It's worth putting yourself in the mind of the evaluators and knowing that they hate that shit. Don't give them a reason to hate you, not to love you. That's what the interview is for.Mimi wrote:These days, they probably have an algorithm to sort through all the riff-raff.Dr. Medulla wrote:Part of all those hoops, I suspect, is to make it easier to reject candidates out of hand. If a company gets, say, 500 applications, they don't want to read all 500. Anything that can be done to funnel the pile into a smaller and smaller number that gets actual attention is desirable. Making people jump thru extra hoops can separate the serious from non-serious or, like the Van Halen red M & M rider, seeing whether people have actually read the instructions is another way to shrink numbers. It doesn't mean the company actually gets the best candidates on the short list, only that it makes the hiring process less time-intensive.
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I run into this all the time. I blame the boomers.Wolter wrote:I'm hitting the part of the job search where I have two options:
1. Apply for boring admin positions I'm somewhat overqualified for that pay just barely enough to make it worth the effort.
2. Apply for awesome positions I'm definitely massively underqualified for that I probably won't get, and would probably get let go from fairly quickly if I were actually hired.
Hooray.
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Wait we're riff raff? Why am I just finding out now?BostonBeaneater wrote:I.E. people like us?Mimi wrote:These days, they probably have an algorithm to sort through all the riff-raff.Dr. Medulla wrote:Part of all those hoops, I suspect, is to make it easier to reject candidates out of hand. If a company gets, say, 500 applications, they don't want to read all 500. Anything that can be done to funnel the pile into a smaller and smaller number that gets actual attention is desirable. Making people jump thru extra hoops can separate the serious from non-serious or, like the Van Halen red M & M rider, seeing whether people have actually read the instructions is another way to shrink numbers. It doesn't mean the company actually gets the best candidates on the short list, only that it makes the hiring process less time-intensive.
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The administrative staff failed to send you the memo, I see. They'll be sacked.revbob wrote:Wait we're riff raff? Why am I just finding out now?BostonBeaneater wrote:I.E. people like us?Mimi wrote:These days, they probably have an algorithm to sort through all the riff-raff.Dr. Medulla wrote:Part of all those hoops, I suspect, is to make it easier to reject candidates out of hand. If a company gets, say, 500 applications, they don't want to read all 500. Anything that can be done to funnel the pile into a smaller and smaller number that gets actual attention is desirable. Making people jump thru extra hoops can separate the serious from non-serious or, like the Van Halen red M & M rider, seeing whether people have actually read the instructions is another way to shrink numbers. It doesn't mean the company actually gets the best candidates on the short list, only that it makes the hiring process less time-intensive.
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revbob wrote:Wait we're riff raff? Why am I just finding out now?BostonBeaneater wrote:I.E. people like us?Mimi wrote:These days, they probably have an algorithm to sort through all the riff-raff.Dr. Medulla wrote:Part of all those hoops, I suspect, is to make it easier to reject candidates out of hand. If a company gets, say, 500 applications, they don't want to read all 500. Anything that can be done to funnel the pile into a smaller and smaller number that gets actual attention is desirable. Making people jump thru extra hoops can separate the serious from non-serious or, like the Van Halen red M & M rider, seeing whether people have actually read the instructions is another way to shrink numbers. It doesn't mean the company actually gets the best candidates on the short list, only that it makes the hiring process less time-intensive.
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On my way to fill out paperwork at a staffing agency I've used several times in the past. The pro: they've always found me work. The con: they mainly work in property management, which I don't want to have to go back to.
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Fingers crossed for you that something more satisfying is on the horizon.Wolter wrote:On my way to fill out paperwork at a staffing agency I've used several times in the past. The pro: they've always found me work. The con: they mainly work in property management, which I don't want to have to go back to.
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Good luck.Wolter wrote:On my way to fill out paperwork at a staffing agency I've used several times in the past. The pro: they've always found me work. The con: they mainly work in property management, which I don't want to have to go back to.
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I agree with this post.Dr. Medulla wrote:Fingers crossed for you that something more satisfying is on the horizon.Wolter wrote:On my way to fill out paperwork at a staffing agency I've used several times in the past. The pro: they've always found me work. The con: they mainly work in property management, which I don't want to have to go back to.
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