U.S. Employers Struggle to Match Workers with Open Jobs
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#2Go and read "Weapons of Math Destruction" by Cathy O’Neil.
This has an excellent chapter of the use of ATS software the majority of recruiters use these days.
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#3In my mind this is screaming for apprenticeship programs like in Germany.[1][2] Companies need a more streamlined process to get employers early in their career so employees have the necessary training and then get promoted within. All the while employees get paid to learn and work.
This one-size-fits-all 4-year college track that every U.S. citizen is being pushed through is failing miserably.
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/why-ger...
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#4To sum up the article, businesses are making ridiculous demands and expecting to pay prospective employees marginally above nothing. Aside from the people posting these job ads, nobody is really surprised.
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#5This is just like the airline industry and it's "pilot shortage" (pay shortage).
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#6Insert comment about requiring 5 years of experience in a 3 year old language
HR gating really is the worst thing going in American hiring practices today.
"Do you have multiple years of experience with 99.9% of the skills listed as requirements, which only a handful of people in the country have? Yes, but I see that on our web form that you had to use to submit your resume you didn't check the box next to 'Degree in X', so you're automatically disqualified."
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#7There is flood of American outsourcing centers in post-Communist EU countries. Top salaries for software devs/eng, including seniors, are USD 40k gross annually. They can treat the employees in the worst "corporate America" ways - their offices, available hardware, policies, laughable benefits, annual leave, create a perfect package for miserable professional and private life.
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#8"A players hire other As, B players hire Cs..."
"The cost of a bad hire is higher than a false negative..."
"... culture fit.."
"We solve hard problems so we need the best.."
It's pretty clear that hiring in technology is a cargo cult that mostly serves to waste time and haze newcomers.
But I think the hiring ritual in general of 'post requirements -> get resumes -> interview' is ineffective bullshit. Each filter is progressively more error prone than the last and you mostly get noise out the other end.
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#9To sum up the article, businesses are making ridiculous demands and expecting to pay prospective employees marginally above nothing. Aside from the people posting these job ads, nobody is really surprised.
Don't forget the steady reduction of benefits in addition to a base pay. I've spent time at fortune 500 engineering firms where the annual deductible for health insurance was $8,000.
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#10In my mind this is screaming for apprenticeship programs like in Germany.[1][2] Companies need a more streamlined process to get employers early in their career so employees have the necessary training and then get promoted within. All the while employees get paid to learn and work. This one-size-fits-all 4-year college track that every U.S. citizen is being pushed through is failing miserably. [1] https://www.theatl…
Even for people who go to college, more work experience is a huge plus. Waterloo's coop system (4 months of school, 4 months of internship, repeated) provides a great mix of practical experience and academics. It would be great if all majors could have an experience like that.