and then write a paragraph of your resume in a cover letter. and then interview you multiple times.

Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Juuust a moment...

I have a red swingline, and an Initech mug. Great movie.

I’m aware of that and don't care, that’s the problem of whomever is poorly and impersonally doing hiring.

If they don't want thousands of applicants, there are tons of recruitment strategies that avoid that problem, like job fairs, employee referral bonuses, direct recruitment, and working with agencies for placements, to name only four off the top of my head.

If they want to send their ad to the wolves, they won’t get good results, but they will get a lot of them. They are also probably an exceptionally shit place to work because they can’t even recruit talent because they are “suffering from abundance” without resorting to screening out people who can’t do data entry or have better things to do than jumping through hoops.

Yeah cool. Good for them. Easily fixed problem, but everyone wants unicorn workers, so they don't need any training, and that requires casting a very wide net and screening out the catch they don't want.

Fuck ‘em.

thats why the ATS/AI to automatically sift out keywords, wether or not its accurate. and likely automatically deny a number of people randomly til they get like 10 or a 100 applicants.

We let it die and made commercial systems to sell to companies instead claiming to streamline HR.

We constantly leave good systems behind because some chucklefuck wants to monetize something

Résumés are the complete opposite of a standardized format.

And also for flats. The portals themselves do have a standard to get that info (OpenImmo, HR Open Standards), but since the portals prefer lock-in, the userside is stuck with custom applications.

"I believe in a paperless environment, it helps keep me organized." Lol

No, its not. I also hire and we take the time to look through the CVs of relevant candidates. If I call someone in I will have questions about their CV for the interview.

Where the lottery actually exists is whether you are the same type of person as the interviewer, because that has more of an influence on whether you get hired.

Well, it’s all about timing. Plus I had zero assistance from our HR team. So this is me doing this solo when it’s not my primary job. It’s more time consuming then you’d expect

I would have to guess that they use stolen identities. Also a lot of the companies that claim they are running background checks for employees often do not. Usually the threat of doing so will weed out people, and they don't tend to be cheap.

even walmart/amazon that originally en masse did background checks on everyone.