{"id":69752,"date":"2020-02-22T09:03:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T14:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=69752"},"modified":"2020-02-22T09:10:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T14:10:26","slug":"more-companies-are-using-automated-job-screening-systems-to-vet-candidates-forcing-jobseekers-to-learn-new-and-absurd-tricks-to-have-their-resumes-seen-by-a-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/02\/22\/more-companies-are-using-automated-job-screening-systems-to-vet-candidates-forcing-jobseekers-to-learn-new-and-absurd-tricks-to-have-their-resumes-seen-by-a-human\/","title":{"rendered":"More companies are using automated job screening systems to vet candidates, forcing jobseekers to learn new and absurd tricks to have their r\u00e9sum\u00e9s seen by a human."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/pkekvb\/cost-cutting-algorithms-are-making-your-job-search-a-living-hell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Cost cutting algorithms are making your job search a living hell<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from vice.com by Nick Keppler<br \/>\n<em>More companies are using automated job screening systems to vet candidates, forcing jobseekers to learn new and absurd tricks to have their r\u00e9sum\u00e9s seen by a human.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Companies are increasingly using automated systems to select who gets ahead and who gets eliminated from pools of applicants. For jobseekers, this can mean a series of bizarre, time-consuming tasks demanded by companies who have not shown any meaningful consideration of them.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nManeuvering around algorithmic gatekeepers to reach an actual person with a say in hiring has become a crucial skill, even if the tasks involved feel duplicitous and absurd. ATS software can also enable a company to discriminate, possibly unwittingly, based on bias-informed data and culling of certain psychological traits.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Until he started as a legal writer for FreeAdvice.com last month, Johnson, 36, said he was at potential employers\u2019 whims. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine I\u2019d move to the next round if I didn\u2019t do what they said,\u201d he told Motherboard.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cost cutting algorithms are making your job search a living hell &#8212; from vice.com by Nick Keppler More companies are using automated job screening systems to vet candidates, forcing jobseekers to learn new and absurd tricks to have their r\u00e9sum\u00e9s seen by a human. Excerpts: Companies are increasingly using automated systems to select who gets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[435,356,387,174,112,454,195,206,321,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-business","category-career-development","category-corporate-business-world","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-tools","category-trends","category-united-states","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69752"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69757,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69752\/revisions\/69757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}