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Randstad's 400 million dollar purchase of Monster.com really has made awful into bloody awful.

RE: Fantastic Opportunities at Uno Pizzeria and Grill!

From: "Uno Pizzeria Careers"

Hi Gungnir!
I reached out to you about a potential job opportunity, but haven't heard back yet. Perhaps you're not interested, but I understand how inboxes get flooded these days, so I figured I'd try and contact you one more time before I close out your candidacy.
Just to re-cap, my name is Dan Brown and I work for monster.com. We are currently partnered with Uno’s Pizzeria and Grill to find a variety of different positions, part time OR full time in their LocalCity/LocalTown locations. I pulled your resume from our website and was wondering if you wanted to have a conversation about a potential job opportunity!
They are looking for the following positions:
- Experienced Server (1+ year). - Experienced Bartender (1+ Year). - Host, Cook, Dishwasher or Prep/Salad no experience required!
Let me know when you get a chance to have a quick chat!
Regards,
Daniel Brown [[monster.com]]

Letter Value: 6xHex-7xHex

How can I take your bullshit recruiting firm or Monster.com with anything less than complete disregard when:
You're faking the RE: in the subject line.
You're trying to get my attention with for jobs outside of my field that require zero experience.
You're using a fake "Daniel Brown" to sign the email.

My wonderful new employer gave us two days of new-hire training, which included at least two anti-union lessons and how much we're a company-family and how important their veteran-hiring polices are.

After three weeks one veteran needs time off for a VA hospital visit. Being a government agency they only have service during our regular hours. And yet our BS "company-family" might turn down this veteran's medical need for a half day off because we're on new-hire 90 Day probation. So if he's turned down and calls out, will they fire him? I can tell you my interviews will be sick days.

I get the distinct impression this company does not want to hire the best but the most obedient and most willing to take abuse rather than the best and brightest. God, get me out of here!

Which one of these is legally acceptable discrimination?

A) "I'm sorry, being Martian is really a requirement for this position."
B) "I'm sorry, being native-born is really a requirement for this position."
C) "I'm sorry, being college-educated is really a requirement for this position."

If you answered C as in College, you're correct.

As others have noted, often times a degree means any bachelor's degree required, not necessarily one specific or even relevant to the line of work. So what is the cause of this hiring obsession with degrees today? One former bigwig I worked for required me to add it to the job descriptions because it would keep our pay relevant compared to every other department.

I would not be surprised that Applicant Tracking Systems are being used to quickly thin the herds of applicants, with location being the first check and the second being a degree. So while recruiters whine about not having enough qualified applicants, how many are really digging into applicants by hand and by eye to find the best of the whole pool outside of that candidate-burying checkbox?

In a role where I was at the cusp of being hired, the CEO's last piece of advice was to put my education status at the top of my resume, as though that's the first thing he cared about, not the last decade of directly-relevant work experience that so readily said I could do the job. The external recruiter later said they "redid the requirements" to aim at someone who well, wasn't me. In many of these cases, perhaps my judgement is skewed because this is the readily available legal rejection, not that I'm huge and intimidating by size, or pale as a ghost, or whatever.

I didn't get diagnosed with ADD until after I left college, so while I'm intelligent and was reasonably successful, I have this repeated experience where I can't get hired to a job commensurate with my real life experience and award-winning track record. And it makes me feel like leftovers, that someone might hire me if they really need someone right now, but otherwise all I'm good for is answering calls. Even some early high school degree requirements were found to be discriminatory. So this this educational requirement the new discrimination?

On the old green site there user achievements like CmdrTaco's list. Perhaps we could promote submitters by making them get a scribe's icon or something distinctive to encourage submissions?

We already have the gold star for subscribers, but the servers aren't useful without submissions to feed the place too.

My default length password via generator was too long for an application today.

The password you entered is not valid

Please note that the password must respect the following rules:

        It must contain between 6 and 32 characters. Use only characters from the following set: ! # $ % & ( ) * + , - . / 0123456789 : ; ? @ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ [ \ ] _ ` abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz { | } ~
        It must contain at least 1 letter(s) (ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz).
        It must contain at least 1 numeric character(s) (0123456789).
        It must not contain more than 2 identical consecutive characters (AAA, iiii, $$$$$ ...).
        It must not contain your user name.

Sorry that I prefer more than 32 characters for my throwaway application accounts. F Oracle Taleo.

This thread made me chortle like a short little fat man with too much money:

Why is this article tagged with the logo for Digital Equipment Corporation?

Maybe I'm just old, but damn, I could excuse not knowing Honeywell had a computer systems group. But not knowing |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| is technologically heathen!

A place I had really wanted to get into but didn't recently reposted the job. Fortunately, not getting this particular job was a blessing in disguise. The person who did get the job quit after a month and posted a nasty and somewhat personal "WORST COMPANY I HAVE EVER WORKED FOR!!!!!" review on Glassdoor.

The place was a prison-like environment, complete with hydra-headed video and allegedly audio recording, micromanagement, and incessant turnover. There's 5 single-star reviews for every positive one in the last year.

And to top it off, the only places they have reposted this job are free sites, or are using large text to tell applicants to go to their portal and not use the on-site apply function that costs them money.

Found another "Support Analyst" role today, with all the usual stuff, except in addition to the "extensive telephone work (90%)" and "24 x 7 on call rotation" it includes these gems:

Required Skills/Experience:
        Must be willing to work flexible hours (8am to 8pm)
        Minimum of 2 years of experience working in a technical support environment preferred
        Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Yes, because the first thing a computer science major wants to do is take calls all day long.

Technologies for the Enterprise Products:
        Microsoft Operating Systems
        Microsoft Office Suite
        Internet and networking technologies
        Web Servers (Apache or IIS)
        Databases and database management systems (SQL, MySQL, Oracle)
        Familiarity with a programming language (VB or C++) and ASP, Java Script and PHP-based web programming

When is this person supposed to work with any of these technologies or write code if they're taking calls 90% of the time? Either this company is really small, or they aren't sure what they need and are hedging their bets.

Applicant Tracking Systems suck, and not just for the dehumanizing data entry process, but for the user interfaces themselves. iCIMS is one of the more popular ones, yet inexplicably has some incredibly unfriendly behavior.

1) iCIMS does not treat the applicant as a service-wide user. So each instance of iCIMs they host requires both a new login account and reentry of all submitter data. So all that nice info that you've meticulously input at Acme's iCIMS portal must be re-input at Beta's iCIMs, etc. Recruiters generally prefer candidates who are working. How does this siloed account system serve those valuable candidates if they have to re-enter all their information each time they apply via iCIMS?

2) To make up for this, iCIMS has LinkedIn integration, but it wants to be a data vacuum:

iCIMS would like to access some of your LinkedIn info:

        YOUR PROFILE OVERVIEW
        YOUR FULL PROFILE
        YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
        YOUR CONNECTIONS
        YOUR CONTACT INFO
        NETWORK UPDATES
        GROUP DISCUSSIONS
        INVITATIONS AND MESSAGES

How does LinkedIn define these options?

Other members won't be able to see any of your profile information that isn't already available when browsing around the website.

With your consent, applications may also take actions on your behalf such as sharing content, sending invitations, and sending messages.

By installing the application, you confirm your acceptance of our User Agreement. You also acknowledge that your use of the application may be subject to the application developer's terms of use and to the application developer's privacy policy.

Some application developers may request permissions to access the following, in order for their applications to function:

• Your Profile Overview - Name, photo, headline, current positions.
• Your Full Profile - Overview above plus experience, education, skills and recommendations.
• Your Email Address - Primary email address you use for your account.
• Your Connections - Your 1st and 2nd degree connections.
• Your Contact Info - Address, phone number, and bound accounts.
• Network Updates - Retrieves and posts updates as you.
• Group Discussions - Retrieves and posts group discussions as you.
• Invitations and Messages - Sends messages and invitations to connect as you.

That's way more than what's required or even asked for via their manual process, but there's no way to limit this data gobbling. If this application posts as the submitter, wouldn't the content posted give a hint that the submitter is job searching? That's a kiss-of-death in some places, and another thing to drive casual, employed candidates away.

3) If you do submit your resume as a file, the results are not shown to you. So however the system mangles the data isn't something you can see or correct! Entire sections of your resume can be eaten by this process and you'll be none-the-wiser. Due to the over-reliance on ATS systems, having a plain resume with no formatting, no tables, and in plain old Microsoft Word .DOC format is essential.

4) iCIMS does not notify you when there is a status change on your application, such as LinkedIn can do. There's no option to enable this either, only to unsubscribe from "mass emails" that I have never seen.

5) The Profile page has a time zone option that is mercifully optional. The full list of entries is 461 items, just in case you're in "Eastern Greenland Summer Time" or "South Georgia Standard Time".

6) At least in the version I used today, there's no option to upload letters of recommendation. There is a text field for the cover letter but no upload option.