Kudo's for reminding everyone of the idea of hard truths and the kind practice of sharing them.
We could all get better at facing unpleasant reality; so much more damage is done by being avoidant, mainly to our own character.
The key question is why recruiting is maladaptive, whether the market is hot or cold.
The answer lies in why no one has really addressed the question: recruiting is spoiled by a culture and practice of secrecy.
The goal is to be fair and avoid recruits gaming the system, but the practice ends up nurturing toxic judgments, tending towards the paranoid and the extreme. Paranoia excludes supposedly non-compliant untrustable people evidenced in resume gaps, and extremism excludes supposedly toxic people evidenced by ancient social media posts.
Like defense procurement, the secrecy that is necessary ends up concealing and preserving toxic practices. In both cases, programmatic application of objective standards could dis-intermediate, so the recruiters/procurement bureaucracies resist and claim essential wisdom.
We could all get better at facing unpleasant reality; so much more damage is done by being avoidant, mainly to our own character.
The key question is why recruiting is maladaptive, whether the market is hot or cold.
The answer lies in why no one has really addressed the question: recruiting is spoiled by a culture and practice of secrecy.
The goal is to be fair and avoid recruits gaming the system, but the practice ends up nurturing toxic judgments, tending towards the paranoid and the extreme. Paranoia excludes supposedly non-compliant untrustable people evidenced in resume gaps, and extremism excludes supposedly toxic people evidenced by ancient social media posts.
Like defense procurement, the secrecy that is necessary ends up concealing and preserving toxic practices. In both cases, programmatic application of objective standards could dis-intermediate, so the recruiters/procurement bureaucracies resist and claim essential wisdom.