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Re: People can’t find jobs, jobs can’t find people; who’s to blame?

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Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
><https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/360937900/he-was-rejected-120-seconds-award-winning-workers-brutal-nine-month-humbling-job-market>
>seems to suggest that prospective employers are building what I would
>describe as an AI wall to screen out job applicants. The rules for
>submitting high-quality job applications don't seem to work any more,
>so it's now back down to whom you know, not what you know: personal
>networking becomes a better path to getting a job than trying to
>negotiate the increasingly futile automated-filter gauntlet.

This predates popular AI.  A decade ago, employers were using online 
submission systems, and many of them were receiving thousands upon
thousands of entries from people who were spamming resumes to as many
open positions as possible.

This leads to aggressive keyword filtering, and some of that filtering
was not necessarily well-designed.  We had open a job for RF engineers
with master's degrees in EE and for some reason the letter or resume
had to mention that the applicant had taken high school algebra for it
to pass through the filter.

So... this caused a disaster.  What you are seeing now is that misguided
HR departments, realizing that the process is currently a disaster, have
now deployed AI filtering in place of simple keyword searches.  The end
result is a new and different disaster but not much different than the
original disaster.

Personal networking is really the most effective way to get any sort of
position, but it may not be enough.  Even if the employer wants to hire
you, HE then has to get you through the HR department filter hurdles....
--scott


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People can’t find jobs, jobs can’t find people; who’s to blame? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-01-04 00:41 +0000
  Re: People can’t find jobs, jobs can’t find people; who’s to blame? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-14 23:20 +0000
    Re: People can’t find jobs, jobs can’t find people; who’s to blame? kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-02-17 18:22 -0500
      Re: People can’t find jobs, jobs can’t find people; who’s to blame? arnold@freefriends.org (Aharon Robbins) - 2026-02-18 13:56 +0000

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