On top of all that, this whole process is totally unaccountable and for some market failure reason, every company repeats it.
Unaccountable : the reason a candidate wasn’t hired isn’t disclosed, which means in many cases it may be a factually false reason, illegal discrimination, the job wasn’t real, or immigration fraud. Or just “they failed to get lucky on an arbitrary test that measures nothing”.
Repeats it: So each company wastes at least a full day of each candidates time, and for each candidate they consider, they waste more than that of their own time, plus plane tickets and other expenses. And then to even be noticed by a company it’s apparently considered the responsibility of the candidate to spam every company in their country with a copy of their resume.
Why isn’t there a standardized test given by a third party for job relevant skills? Why isn’t there a central database where all the candidates put their resumes, and it won’t make any difference to the chance of being hired if a particular candidate spams everyone. (to an extent, having a linkedin profile and just waiting for a recruiter to ping you is this)
I know it’s the result of some series of competing incentives that result in this market failure, aka moloch, but still.
Why isn’t there a standardized test given by a third party for job relevant skills?
That’s what Triplebyte was trying to do for programming jobs. It didn’t seem to work out very well for them. Last I heard, they’d been acquired by Karat after running out of funding.
On top of all that, this whole process is totally unaccountable and for some market failure reason, every company repeats it.
Unaccountable : the reason a candidate wasn’t hired isn’t disclosed, which means in many cases it may be a factually false reason, illegal discrimination, the job wasn’t real, or immigration fraud. Or just “they failed to get lucky on an arbitrary test that measures nothing”.
Repeats it: So each company wastes at least a full day of each candidates time, and for each candidate they consider, they waste more than that of their own time, plus plane tickets and other expenses. And then to even be noticed by a company it’s apparently considered the responsibility of the candidate to spam every company in their country with a copy of their resume.
Why isn’t there a standardized test given by a third party for job relevant skills? Why isn’t there a central database where all the candidates put their resumes, and it won’t make any difference to the chance of being hired if a particular candidate spams everyone. (to an extent, having a linkedin profile and just waiting for a recruiter to ping you is this)
I know it’s the result of some series of competing incentives that result in this market failure, aka moloch, but still.
That’s what Triplebyte was trying to do for programming jobs. It didn’t seem to work out very well for them. Last I heard, they’d been acquired by Karat after running out of funding.