Posted on 07/16/2025 7:12:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Why Recruiting Needs a Rethink
Posting on job boards and hoping for the best doesn’t work in 2025. Neither does relying on algorithms to scan résumés or auto-reject candidates based on keywords.
People want human connection in the hiring process. They want to feel seen, valued, and understood. Businesses want someone who gets their culture, not just someone who checks a box.
That’s where experienced recruiting companies come in — bridging the gap between what businesses really need and what job seekers actually offer.
And we require endless certifications etc to even be considered. They are often to comply with some government rule and not a true need.
I keep up four certifications every year, plus, my employer thinks I should get additional one that only last three years before needing total renewal and retests.
Not attractive.
Go for certs from organizations that allow multiple certs to get annual renewal with similar education / webinars. These are easiest to maintain.
It’s Money and Illegals
Everything else is Horseshiite.
Illegals have pushed all domestics out of labor for 3 generations.
Biz wants to pay 1st yr salaries to 5 yr experience workers.
That’s the phookin disconnect/ mismatch.
Before I retired, I was in a very niche engineering role. The stuff wasn’t taught in college. Not many people wanted to do it. It was not a common skill — very few people know how to do it. I’d done it for 30 years in a variety of environments. I had basically done “everything” related to my field. I would see job postings with ridiculously precise requirements. They were looking for people with experience doing 50 specific tasks. Well, I had actually done all of them. And I know that resumes are scanned by AI tools. If the right keywords are not in the resume, it gets tossed before a human ever sees it. Well, I could craft an honest resume, hitting every single keyword in their long list of requirements, in this very niche field, where it is almost impossible to find anyone with good experience. I would check every box and send in my resume. And, typically, I would never hear back at all. No interest. And the job posting would stay up for months and months. But no phone call. No interview. Nothing. I never took it personally, I just considered it evidence that the “recruiting” field is totally broken.
There are unquestionably significant numbers of people who don't want to work -- period. Or want to work under conditions where there are no expectations of timeliness, attendance, or performance, which amounts to the same thing.
A big issue when the largest HR app is caught screening applicants against being over 40:
Mostly makes sense in my mind if healthcare costs are significantly higher with the older employees.
Some of us remember when any company worth anything had an extensive training program rather than expecting young hires to be ready to go.
The more job hopping developed, the less return there was for such investments.
Yep, no doubt
Meanwhile, recruiters are contacting me and I am trying to retire. Most of them are probably just resume farming anyway
“Illegals have pushed all domestics out of labor for 3 generations.”
I’ve heard managers say they won’t hire black people, so there goes a good chunk of American workers, especially in the south.
None of the managers I’ve heard this from were native born Americans. They were all foreign born.
I once worked for a company that only hired people who had all the skills and were ready to hit the ground running on the first day. Okay. That’s not unreasonable. But they took it a step further and never provided any training at all. You were supposed to know your job already! This was in IT where everything changes all the time. Keeping current with your skills? 100% on the employee. The company wasn’t going to give time off or pay for classes or certifications. Why should they??? Don’t you know how to do your job???
If the level of employee they want rolled with that, I guess it worked for them. But I’d think those with a different approach would have had better results.
(And of course exempt employees are expected to put in extra time as needed.)
I've come to the conclusion that some kind of modern-day version of "indentured servitude" may be an ideal scenario. As a matter of company policy I try to minimize the training I'm willing to provide for employees. That's because it's not a good business decision to make when there is nothing that ties the employee to my company after I've laid out a lot of money to train them.
Tying the employee to the company for a set period of time would work for me, as I am not the type of business manager who would ever abuse that relationship.
Not completely true. A lot of people are not even looking for work because of gov’t transfer payments. A lady from WI called into a Chicago radio station (WGN) and said she was a HS graduate and was quite articulate and explained that she didn’t work because she was a single mom raising 3 kids. She said that with welfare payments, rent subsidy, food stamps, Medicaid, and other benefits provided by the state, she would need to find a job that paid her over $40,000/yr to match her income...and that was back in 2008!
Reduce those transfer payments or replace them with “workfare” like in Europe (i.e., if you draw gov’t benefits, you must work for them, even if it is just cleaning sidewalks on gov’t properties), you’d find a lot more people looking for work. This mismatch is probably worse than it seems.
REPLACING THE ILLEGALS WITH ACTUAL AMERICAN TAXPAYERS IS A WIN-WIN-WIN SITUATION.
BETTER RESULTS
TAXES ACTUALLY GOING INTO THE STATES & FED
REMOVING THE ILLEGALS WHO ARE SUCKING OUT BILLIONS EVERY MONTH
I’d just go with bonuses for tenure.
Would also solve many housing issues.
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