Applicants probably spend more time skimming job openings than Managers spend skimming through CVs

delitomatoes@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 278 points –

Much easier to reject bad CVs. On the other hand every job post is the same and you have to check Glassdoor and Crunchbase before applying to a potential bad company

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You're what's wrong with job searching

Did you want their fulltime job to be reading thousand of resumes or did you want them to be an actual manager?

It's a broken system with no solution in sight.

But yeah let's blame this worker who has thousands of resumes that they have to figure out how to review asap.

Let's completely fuck off thousands of applicants who hear nothing about job opportunities because the reviewer doesn't like certain words.

Countless recruiters give some very basic advice in person and online, and they almost always say to put skills in decreasing order of importance. Job applications are god awful, but I really don't think being asked to follow basic instructions is a big ask. Blame companies, not recruiters.

What solution to you propose? What do you envision yourself doing if you are the recipient of several thousand applications for one position?