On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 02:33:29PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote: > > Indeed -- and the employer who bucks this trend does him/her self a huge > > service, because large numbers of very skilled and/or talented people are > > being rejected on entirely arbitrary criteria that have little or no > > correlation to their ability to do the job. > > Keep in mind in today's job market, and given Internet methods of > advertising positions, the problem isn't in finding qualified people > -- the problem is in whittling down the couple thousand or so resumes > you get to a manageable pile. You can afford to reject some qualified > applicants in that process because there are always more looking. > > Again, this is one of the reasons credit scoring is becoming so > popular -- it's an almost automatic way to narrow down the pile. > Another method in common use right now is to throw out applications > from anyone who's currently unemployed, and only look at ones who > already have a position and are looking to change jobs.
Reminds me of an episode of "The Office". The manager gets a pile of resumes/CVs and immediately bungs half of them in the trash. His reasoning: he doesn't like employing "unlucky" people :) Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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