The Entry-Level Hiring Process Is Breaking Down

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The hiring process in general is broken. I applied for a role I was fully qualified for and auto-rejected. Funnily, I applied for another role with the company and they said I’d be “perfect” for that role id already been rejected from. HR manually put my application back in the running - I have a final interview for that role next week - but it says a lot that people who are clearly qualified are being rejected by systems rather than human beings, just because you don’t have the “right” language or font on your resume.

Ridiculous.

My sister has been looking for a job so she can move closer to family. Her organization has affiliated regional groups that are technically independent but closely affiliated, so applying to a different regional group is not an "internal application." She applied for her exact same job with the different region and the AI auto-rejected her. Fortunately, she did finally get a job, although she lost tenure and pension continuation that would have transferred to that other region.

[Anonymous]

Smart, qualified students and graduates are spending their energy trying to game the language on their resumes so that the resume gets through first-pass AI screens. Instead of putting their best foot forward — highlighting the interesting things they’ve done that in a different time would have distinguished them — they are reducing themselves to appeal to an algorithm. It’s like bad satire.

[Anonymous]

Regarding finance and consulting, I think a lot of older people remember when attractive people from good but not great schools who maybe played tennis/golf and majored in liberal arts could get jobs in finance. That has changed, and now rigor and grades matter a lot.

Even for something like Private Banking/Private Client Services or Investor Relations, the candidate profile has changed because the profile of the ultra high net worth has changed. First, more and more ultra high net worth people now come from fields like tech (tech company founders) so they are very technical and highly educated people, so again rigor and academics matter. Second, the ultra high net worth in the US that scoop up properties and invest here now includes more and more foreign wealth from certain countries, so language skills can be a bump if you speak something like Mandarin or Arabic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS had to do a dozen asynchronous interviews after recruiters reached out to him at his T20 and then got ghosted. The problem lies in the corporations -- who don't know how to recruit and actually spend time to talking to potential candidates.

The companies are at fault? It’s not the fault of the socially awkward, entitled, unrealistic, inexperienced, unemployable applicants?

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Parent

DP. Since you don’t know the individual in question, this is nothing but a story you are telling yourself.

But what if the old system is no longer intact? What if the world is now more rupture than continuity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS had to do a dozen asynchronous interviews after recruiters reached out to him at his T20 and then got ghosted. The problem lies in the corporations -- who don't know how to recruit and actually spend time to talking to potential candidates.

This jumped the shark. Th process goes like this: Lots of video interviews -> reviewed by recruiters -> 10 advanced to live interviews -> 2 got hired. If your son had landed a job you’d be on here proclaiming the efficiency of the process. The corporations know exactly what they are doing. If your kid flunked a bunch of interviews that’s not on the corporations that’s on your kid. Did he wear a suit clean up his background or room or blur the background use headphones ensure a quiet distraction free room prep his answer in advance rehearse it comb his hair shave his face etc etc. anything and I mean anything could have knocked him out of the process if he was stellar in the asynchronous process.

My son landed a great job that pays nearly $100k. If you all think talking to a blank video as part of your application after you were recruited, then we’re done here. You can’t even answer what’s the point of this? How can a recruiter tell about a candidate this way? Wearing a suit and blurring the video, okay sure. And yes, he did that.