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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Definitive red flag if that is their supposed understanding of computers

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Update: ffs I'm not defending hr, they're usually incompetent buffoons. But they're the incompetent buffoons you need to get past if you want to get hired. And I don't know about you, but when Frito Pendejo said "I like money" I kinda agreed with him. Anyway back to my OC:

Why? They're HR and hiring managers, not IT specialists.

Try seeing it from HR's perspective. They post a job and get +200 applications. The success criteria is not hiring the best candidate, it's hiring a suitable candidate. Given that premise, why would you read through all 200 applications, when there's someone with a nice website and cool sounding software, who promise that their product can sort through the resumes and only pick the relevant ones for you?

Heck, I'm definitely going to be looking for an ATS testing site for my CV now. It really doesn't matter what we think of it. If you want to communicate you'll have to do it in a way that your recipient will understand, and if my recipient is a PoS software that can't read PDFs, then writing my CV in latex is probably not the most effective way to communicate.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Try seeing it from HR's perspective.

K, now what.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Now you get it. That was what I was trying to say. They're just trying to look like they're doing enough to get paid.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

"we can't afford ATS software that can read PDFs"

okay, can you afford to pay me a proper wage??

[–] _stranger_ 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The savvy ones are probably copy pasting entire resumes into chat gpt and then asking if they're a good candidate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tbf I've done that with first joblistings. Like "ask questions that a suitable candidate for the following joblisting should answer in a job application". And then pasting my cover letters asking for relevancy and phrasing help. Maybe I should try for ATS optimization.

[–] _stranger_ 1 points 2 months ago

That...is an excellent idea actually. Damn.