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7 Things You Can Do To Discourage Those Pesky Applicants
By Ron | December 1, 2008
My friend who is still looking for a job in Human Resources is about ready to quit the field due to the seven things that many HR departments do to discourage job applicants:
1. Use third parties to screen out candidates.
2. Make the web site application process long and complicated.
3. Instead of a human, use a resume retrieval system that eliminates candidates.
4. Don’t ever get back to applicants.
5. Don’t sound too friendly when doing phone interviews (don’t want to get their hopes up).
6. If they ever make it through 1-5, put them through a grueling interview process.
7. Leave them hanging for an answer.
I told him that I must have been doing it wrong all these years. I always thought of my applicants as customers and tried to treat them that way. Yes, many times it was difficult due to volume, but it was always possible.
Topics: HR |
December 1st, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Hoo Boy !!
Strikes a nerver with me!
I have been fighting the same thing.
And in addition to your point #1, have the screener not know the industry they are screening you for.
Just had that one happen to me last week -
December 1st, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Elliot,
I love your addition! Thanks, Ron
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:06 am
Ron, nice post. I think you can often tell which recruiters either came from high-volume recruiting backgrounds (call-centers, for example) or work in a disfunctional HR department. If anything, they do your friend a favor.
Top performers aren’t going to want to work for a place that doesn’t treat them well from start to finish.
- Chris