A thing about hiring…
It’s amazing to me how many places around keep posting the same jobs over and over again, acting like they never get any candidates.
Maybe it’s not that people don’t want to work, but that you’re assuming that you can be so extremely picky. The job market is getting tighter. I’m not saying you should hire just anyone who walks through the door, but if they’re ticking all the boxes, at least give them an interview. Maybe you’ll be pleasantly surprised when someone who you were about to write off turns out to be extremely passionate about what you’re doing. Maybe don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
Also, if you do interview someone and invite them to come see the facility, then HR sends a rather form-letter style e-mail saying they aren’t moving forward with your interview process, maybe don’t post that exact job up again right away. Obviously you had a candidate, or maybe several, and that’s why you took the posting down. But if you’re so quick to put it back up, maybe you should take a little time to analyze what the mismatch is before copy and pasting it right back up to the same hiring websites again.
Granted, I’m not the perfect candidate for anyone. But nobody is. But I’m a pretty damn good one for quite a lot of jobs. I know (after passing it around to some friends who work in HR and/or are hiring managers) that parts of my resume are a red flag. I’ve been in my field 15 years without holding a management position. I spent 7 years at one job just to move completely laterally to another company at the same level, when I should have taken a more senior position. But I’m not willing to lie on my resume to get a job. I feel bad enough writing it the way I do to make some fairly mundane things sound way more important than they are. You see stories in the news about executives claiming they went to schools that they never went to, or having done things that never happened. I wonder how those people sleep at night knowing their careers are built on lies.
If you’re out there, and you’re hiring, and someone is missing one of the tick boxes, but they’re trying. Maybe ask them why they’re missing that tick box. Maybe some of can’t get those years of management experience where we are and are looking at the job because we want it. But if you make every management job have a requirement of having management experience, then how will you ever hire anyone?
/rant 😒
