Unemployment is hard enough. Having hiring managers also be horrible towards candidates.
Sometimes hiring managers aren’t the nicest people. They are just doing their job: reviewing thousands of resumes, having a lot of interviews a day, and having to put up with bosses who demand the research for a new employee to be finished quickly. Their job is hard, actually. But that doesn’t mean that they are great. Is common to encounter recruiters who don’t want to hear you, who show clearly how uninterested they feel towards you, and who dismiss you before you even finish talking about your experience. The job market is crazy nowadays, and all the new tips that human resources share to “get the job” make it harder. It seems like for each candidacy you need a whole new resume.
Those impossible standards have made it impossible for normal employees to land usual jobs. Before, you used to enter a diner that had a “help wanted” sign on the door, and they would hire you even without experience. Not even junior positions need a bachelor’s degree. Is completely insane, which makes candidates tense and desperate just to simply land an interview. That’s why I believe, that recruiters should be nicer to customers who are putting themselves out there just so they can someday get a job.
This Reddit story is pretty sad. The company had a valuable candidate who wanted the job so much that they came in person to introduce themselves to the hiring manager. They went above and beyond to make themselves noticeable and stop being just another number that applied online. That is very valuable. But the recruiter didn’t seem to notice that, or even care enough. Maybe having so restrictive policies about hiring has made everything worse, especially if it ends up blocking valuable candidates to favor the ones that simply know how to use LinkedIn or how to make their resume pretty. They care so much about a perfect interview that they forget to notice that the most important thing is their character and work ethic.
Author: Kayitsi.com
