Hiring is Broken. Want to help fix it?
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Hi,
Even if we disagree on the cause of it, I think most people would agree that Hiring is Broken right now - I would use a more powerful and scottish adjective here to reflect my true feelings!
So this is why I am trying to build Profolia (https://prf.la), to make it more interesting it's also an experiment of sorts to see what I can build in 100 hours with the tools available on the market (https://prf.la/blog)
What I would be keen to hear is where you think the main problem lies, and what you think would improve it? Any side of the equation: candidate, recruiter, hiring manager - I want to hear your thoughts.
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PickleMatch
Interestingly, I think there's a lot of overlap between the problems in hiring and problems in dating (the space I'm building in).
Here's a braindump of what I'm seeing:
when you accept applications online you get 1000s and are unable to reasonably review them all, so you do rely on AI to screen
applicants know that AI is now screening, so they are trying to increase volume of applications to increase odds, which means they now use AI too
AI interviewing/screening has made the whole process feel less personal, so both HMs and candidates are behaving worse (i.e. interview no shows, ghosting candidates after final stage interviews, candidates verbally accepting multiple jobs to play them off each other)
people's CVs are more 'chaotic' and less patterned than pre-pandemic - frequent job changes, long gaps, tons of different roles - is more common now than ever, making it harder to find that "cookie cutter" candidate.
hiring managers have been used to headcount being changed frequently since pandemic, so there's the sense that when a role opens up they want to secure the hire before policy/HR changes their mind.