Are You Hiring?
For the past two weeks, while surfing #LinkedIn and reading articles, posts, and engaged in some topics, I started to realize a fact when I came across people talking about #hiring, #job search, hunting, you name it; from the #employer perspective and the #jobseeker. Both opinions are valid and to the point, yet the practice that all companies are implementing for hiring is WRONG.
At the same time, you can hear influential people including academicians and businessmen are highlighting #skills, #competencies, and personality traits. This is the new trend; you can realize this by noticing that big employers are dropping the need for a degree.
Now, if you go and apply for any position on one of the most well-known job hunt portals, you still need to upload or write about your previous experience and roles and you still need to list the degrees. The problem is, as a friend of mine mentioned a few days ago in one of his posts, the average applicant's number for any position during a week is 200 to 300, he said that no employer can go over all the CVs. You need to tailor your CV to match the job, this is what he said and I agree 100%; yet, you can go over the green “OpenToWork” members and read their posts and you can know that this guy or that girl seems smart enough, but do not know how to prepare her/his CV, s/he could be a genius programmer, but do not know how to express her/himself or even ask someone to do it. I know this, I have seen it.
During my 25+ years of experience, I have been on the seat of job seekers 5 times, and on the employers’ seat more than I can remember. I just noticed that I did not read the full #CV, my first impression was the key factor, you know we received the shortlist from #HR and we do our filtering later. What if the CV of that genius programmer was gone in the first filter?
Nowadays, hundreds of psychometric analysis surveys can be tuned to certain #personality traits and competencies, why #employers do not use such a method, the job seeker needs to complete it, submit necessary information and that is it. The employer will review scores, and do the selection based on average and then do the interview. This is fairer. I was in the IT industry for more than 12 years, then shifted to #education #management and succeeded, I guess.
For all employers out there, please try to give a chance to the right people, this is a win-win situation. PUT the CVs aside.
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4 年Very true! I started my career in the engineering field with a degree in computer and communication engineering, and now I work in media and communication management. Talents, skills, personality traits should all be taken into high consideration in the recruitment process.
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4 年Well said !
Educator | School Principal | IBEN Member | IB Evaluation Leader | IB Programme Leader| Educational Consultant| Certified Trainer | Curriculum Designer
4 年Totally agree! CVs sometimes underestimate or overestimate candidates! Especially during this era, CVs and degrees don’t weigh and do not reflect the true image of the job seekers, unfortunately. Away from CVs and degrees, I guess there must be something really done for attitude. Skills and knowledge in the work place can be acquired in no time... yet the attitude is hard to acquire! Attitude guides the person to either grow or fail against all what might be faced throughout the way! This applies for both employees and employers, as sometimes employers are rude and spread poisoned attitude which kills the employees’ motivation and growth.