re: #437 HappyWarrior

It goes back to their fantasy about tradition. That in the “good old days” all you have to do was fill out a job application and you could get a job on the spot. That kind of experience is very rare especially if you’re a college graduate. And there’s so much resume tailoring and cover letter tailoring. Getting a job in itself these days is a job. I don’t propose to have all the answers but I do think we’d benefit if employers saw their employees more like people rather than just someone they could pay cheaply as possible so they could get more for themselevs.

Just fill out an application? The days of the paper application came and went. Very rare are the places these days that I find paper applications still being handed out and most of those are small businesses. If you’re running anything more complicated than a franchise, then all applications are done electronically.

Gone are the days of chatting up the manager as you filled out a few boxes, now you spend 30 minutes filling out one application and a long questionnaire, after which the data is sent to the home office in another state and ran through algorithms they tell you nothing about to decide if you’re worth hiring. Then you might get a callback for an interview at the shop you’re looking to get hired at.