Daily Inspiration: "Your attitude should get you everything!” - Futurist Jim Carroll
The business of recruitment is broken.
In the last many years, much of it has moved to a world of automated resume processing, analytical examination of talent and skills, and the dominance of cold, hard statistical analysis. Many companies simply demand a cover letter and a LinkedIn page. Quality candidates often never make their way through the assembly-line methodology of calculated inference - instead, those who best match the algorithm are those who get the chance of an actual interview.
By and large, it's been doing the same thing in the same old way for many years - and the implementation of AI into the recruitment and hiring workflow promises to make things worse, not better.
Instead of the current system, organizations should hire people based on their attitude. Their initiative, mindset, optimism, quirkiness, and oddness should matter - not the perfection of their resume structure. People should be hired on who they are - rather than what they were.
It's a tall order - the world of HR is one of those that cling to the methodologies of yesterday like the drowning cling to a live preserver.
But some are starting to move down that path of change:
