@Everyone,

I came across a very good read that points truth to the frustrations when job-seeking. I know we've experienced at least one of these scenarios:

• You find a job listed online, fill out the application, and never hear a word back.
• An employer or recruiter contacts you, asks for loads of information, then never responds.
• You show up for an interview, only to realize the employer has not read your resume.
• You do an interview, only to realize the job is not what they said it was when you applied.
• You accept a job offer, only to learn the job isn’t the job they said they were hiring you for.
• You go through a long recruiting and interview process, invest a lot of time, but the employer never gets back to you with an answer.

The leading reason for all these types of job applicant abuse — let’s call it what it is — is that most employers are stupid about recruiting and hiring. They recruit improperly and mindlessly. They use mass solicitation methods that by nature encourage job seekers to play a numbers game and to make applications that are iffy at best — then HR blames the applicant.

HR’s general hiring strategy is to get as many applicants into the pipeline as possible, and to cull through them later. This creates epic costs for employers, and it’s what gets you rejected out of hand after you’ve invested hours of time filling out forms and going on interviews that you quickly realize aren’t even for the right job.

That’s the big truth that job seekers, hiring managers and HR have almost totally lost sight of in today’s economy. They’re too busy arguing about “criteria” that have let hiring degenerate into a bureaucratic nightmare that prompts employers to mindlessly abuse countless job applicants — and to complain of a phony “talent shortage.”

Read here: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/put-end-stupid-job-interview-questions/