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Given your interest in this as a problem, you might be interested in this:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/6/22659225/automated-hiring-software-rejecting-viable-candidates-harvard-business-school

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Really great insight. Thanks for sharing!

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Feb 15, 2023Liked by Michael Woudenberg

Technology has taken the in-built problems of recruitment - employers not understanding the roles they need or the types of people who succeed in them, employers misrepresenting themselves, candidates misrepresenting themselves intentionally or unintentionally - and supercharged them.

I see a lot of issues at the start of the process - correctly scoping the role and the requirements for a candidate to be successful in it and then converting that into a job ad. Huge opportunities for improvement here. BTW I found this research very interesting: https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/talent-acquisition/job-description-heatmap

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Great points. I've said for a while that automation on bad processes just does bad processes faster. The link was great. What had me laughing was the compensation and the location with the responsibilities.

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