Are recruiting processes broken because most managers suck? /u/bravelogitex CSCQ protests reddit

Today I got a rejection email unlike anything before. It actually warmed my heart, here it is: https://imgur.com/a/HEsMcUM

I was thinking about how many canned rejection emails I got in my life. Both after just applying, and after interviewing. What bothers me is how rejecting candidates who cold applied can be done in a meanginful way, by just listing out in 1-2 paragrahs, what the ideal candidate looks like. But that rejection above was different.

A good manager is empathetic. They craft their recruiting process with care, because their success relies on their team, and so they should spend lots of time and effort in creating this process. A manager that doesn’t have the empathy to explain the general patterns of why many applicants got rejected, is a crappy manager.

And you might say it’s only the recruiters who look at all the resumes. Only a crappy manager lets recruiters sort through resumes.

Today I got a rejection email unlike anything before. It actually warmed my heart, here it is: https://imgur.com/a/HEsMcUM

I was thinking about how many canned rejection emails I got in my life. Both after just applying, and after interviewing. What bothers me is how rejecting candidates who cold applied can be done in a meanginful way, by just listing out in 1-2 paragrahs, what the ideal candidate looks like. But that rejection above was different.

A good manager is empathetic. They craft their recruiting process with care, because their success relies on their team, and so they should spend lots of time and effort in creating this process. A manager that doesn’t have the empathy to explain the general patterns of why many applicants got rejected, is a crappy manager.

And you might say it’s only the recruiters who look at all the resumes. Only a crappy manager lets recruiters sort through resumes.