I was waiting for this rambling post to get to the point until I realized it's just an ad for the author's new ATS. They're trying to convince you that other products are bad but theirs is good.
Which seems weird, it's very technical. Monolith design, relationship types, I've never met an HR person who wondered about those kinds of things
> The product is the sales demo that impresses VPs. Meanwhile, recruiters are still shuffling candidates around in Google Sheets.
This gave me a chuckle, because a colleague who talked with HRs just told me exactly this last week.
I hate to be that guy, but HR is one of the things I always point to as a perfect example of "A system's purpose is what it does"
- HR's task is NOT with maximizing results/IC output
- HR's task is minimizing corporate risk
HR is, in most corporate environments, doing exactly what it is intended to do (minimize risk)!
Hiring anybody, from an org's perspective, is insanely risky for a million different reasons. Therefore, there are a million different (valid and invalid) reasons to reject a candidate - which is what overwhelmingly happens, unless HR is sidestepped via referrals and networking.
> "A system's purpose is what it does"
POSIWID: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
But does it minimize corporate risk? Those who get ghosted or face an unfair interview can overwhelmingly report a negative experience online, which then slowly drags the company down because it hurts the candidate pool. I assert it does not minimize this dimension of corporate risk.
Some interesting insights, but author is speculating on a technical solution for a process that's broken * for the job seeker *.
The fact that there's often thousands of applicants for one job is exactly what companies and recruiters want. This system shifts all the power to them, and they're perfectly happy with it. No amount of technical fixes will change this, or if it's even necessary.
> The fact that there's often thousands of applicants for one job is exactly what companies and recruiters want
Are you sure that's true? I often read complaints here from hiring managers that have to wade through far too many obviously unqualified applications.