I’m so upset because today I had an interview for a role at a huge media company. But then during the interview, she saw that I was not located in the state so we had to cut the interview short. the recruiter for this process messed up so bad that even the hiring manager that I spoke with was upset because she was really looking forward to meeting me and learning more about my experience… has this every happened to anyone? I should mention that I went through an agency for this role

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Unbelievably embarrassing mistake on the part of the recruiter and the hiring team’s lack of due diligence in follow up. What a huge disappointment for you as an exhausted and depleted job seeker.

And a perfect example of overwork, and being inundated, as a recipe for poor results and outcomes.

I’d say this reflects perfectly on the disconnect of the current job market.

Most of the discussion has been about how there are too few jobs for too many job seekers.

But it’s way more complicated and far worse than just that. I believe recruiters are so overworked, pressured by time and expectations that they are not successfully matching candidates to roles. I think it may help explain why the same job posts keep reappearing.

ATS is doing a poor job with good fit. People perfect for a role are filtered out while a less ideal fit, or even inappropriate geography, ends up the ATS survivor getting the interview or job offer.

Too many humans replaced by AI to address candidate volume, and too much trust in AI, and here we are.

It’s been a perfect storm of disconnect while jobs are impacted by AI with no formal programs to assist in this new AI era transition in the economy. Too many tools, and counting, to fracture meaningful focus and mastery. And specific industries/companies may prefer one tool over the other.

I think the smarter organizations out there may want to start handling things a little differently:

- cap total candidates in the pool and have humans select the ones to advance to call backs and interviews
- hire for human mindset, not just a laundry list of skills
- be prepared to train for any gap skills to customize hiring fit—natural strengths and passion aligned to the role is more predictive of success than every single box checked
-AI is convincing leadership that we can all be expert producers across several disciplines with AI tools and it’s just not true.

For job seekers to be searching 1-2 years for a quality role means people will lose everything in a desperate drawn out search for work in an unsustainable and crumbling labor economy.

Unsustainable.

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Oh I'm sorry that happened. I havn't had that happen, but I had it happen where I learned the work flow for a job, and I said I really was not interested. I knew myself and it was a no go.

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