So I get pinged by recruiters from time to time. I am always amazed at how poorly the engine to connect companies/recruiters to candidates is. I mean seriously, I have been contacted 3 times in the last 6 months for positions at Microsoft. I work there for christ’s sake.
How is it we can get targeted performance based advertising to connect advertsiers and consumers with relative ease but when it comes to filling open positions (something you would think would be more critical) the whole process breaks down?
Resumes/candidates should work like search listings. Your skills and abilities get indexed by spiders who crawl available people who are then searched on by employers. You could set up “no follow” tags on certain job opportunities like friggin Farmers Insurance who seems to think I would be a great candidate to open my own insurance selling business. You then optimize your resume to draw attention to the right employers. All would be managed via algorithm which could get you banned for spamming the engine. There has to be a better way.
That’s a great idea. I used to work at Yahoo! and I was hit up to work at all kinds of nonsense. Following on the search engine concept for hiring, you might as well have a Quality Score for recruiters based on how off they are.
Likewise, although when I was at Yahoo I never got hit up for a job at Yahoo. I have had 3 more “recruiters” try to recruit me to Microsoft. Its a ridiculously broken model. I definitely like the idea of a quality score for recruiters and likewise for job seekers. Either way its a model in need for an update