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Google Is Working On a Tool For Managing Job Applicants (axios.com)
Google is quietly testing "Google Hire," a job applicant tracking system that appears to rival services like Greenhouse and Lever, Axios is reporting. From the report: The service lets employers post job listings, then accept and manage applications, according to job listing links spotted by Axios reader Colin Heilbut. So far, several tech companies seem to be using (or testing) Google Hire, including Medisas, Poynt, DramaFever, SingleHop, and CoreOS.
So google might as we take a swing at it? I have seen plenty of different programs out there designed to make it easier for companies to screen applications, and the truth is none of them work. Every last one is fucking worthless; discarding too many good applicants and letting too many awful ones through. To make it worse the HR people almost universally have zero understanding of how it works or why it doesn't work, which only increases the failure rate.
Granted google is orders of magnitude better at NLP than the companies that have been selling this shitty software for all these years, but that doesn't mean they'll get it right, either.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Google is innovating in this space by using a patented algorithm to guess the age of each applicant. Any applicant over 30 is immediately deleted.
I can't wait to be instantly disqualified for a position by an unfeeling piece of software that I indirectly helped bring to the market! ;)
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What about the jobs that never existed in the first place, there was no intention of ever filling them, there was no hiring manager involved, and the listings existed only to make HR look busy?
Those jobs are easy to spot. They typically have a requirement for five years of experience in an technology that came out six months earlier.