Re: Employment history low points
"Mike O." wrote ...
You are pretty far along the management track if you think
job-hunting is "asking for a favor." (Brother, can you spare a
dime?) I prefer to think of it as a business relationship.
It is a business relationship, but he/she who has the money makes the rules.
Not just that, but most people dislike demands being made on them. They also dislike turning people down. In either case, many people will avoid either situation, or else turn their discomfort into resentment of those who put this pressure on them. Employers are no different from anyone else.
That's why networking and informational interviews are often the most successful ways of job-hunting: they sidestep the reactions that asking for a job provoke.
Mike, why would a company that is honestly looking to hire a qualified person
make the application process misleading? That would only lead them to get
unqualified people. I mean, if that's the case, then you could extrapolate that
the employer was stupid and therefore - why would you want to work for them in
the first place?
It makes no logical sense for an employer to needlessly throw out potentially
qualified people.
I don't think it's a case of throwing out qualified people. I think the goal is more to reduce the number of resumes that need to be handled. Of course, this isn't the goal of the company executives, but the goal of the clerks and junior managers who have to handle the resumes. These gatekeepers are often just as concerned with reducing their workloads as with hiring the most qualified person for the job.
Mike's strategies are simply ways of getting past these gatekeepers and the various automated filters they use.
Once that's done, then, of course, you still have to show your talents and personality in the interview process.
I also suspect that Andrew is thinking of his own hiring for a relatively small company, while Mike is thinking of the hiring processes for larger companies.
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