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To some extent, this merely codifies in writing selection processes that
have been de facto SOP in many hiring situations for years. The
hierarchy of candidate selection usually goes something like this:
1. People you have worked with who impressed you.
2. People recommended to you by people you work with or have worked with who
impress/ed you.
3. Applicants to job postings.
By the time hiring managers get to 3, they're already looking for ways to
cut down the stack of resumes, and in times such as we're in now, pretty
desperately so. Nevertheless, actually saying this in ads strikes me as
being devoid of professionalism, class or even basic human compassion. I
suggest that anyone who sees such an ad, for any position, should
immediately submit an application. Even if it's for a job you're totally
unqualified or overqualified for or that is not even in your field. The
longterm unemployed may be too demoralized to flood these bastards' inboxes,
but the rest of us can do it for them.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
> I think this 6+ months thing, and a lot of other ways in which employers
> discriminate, are really just them trying to cut down on the number of
> resumes they have to actually read.
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