Recruitment has Never Been About the Best Candidate
The perfect candidate, who could that be? Recruitment has never been about the best candidate.
The process is a crap process where CVs get thrown out because of foreign names, people may not get a fair opportunity because of accents and nepotism happens frequently.
The interview is full of questions that don’t determine whether the person can do the job. Sometimes, it is all about who can lie the best and can articulate those lies better. The organisation lies to candidates about what they can get and be at the company, and they end up with the best liars.
Studies have shown huge biases in the recruitment process. For example, a manager would never actually hire the best candidate because of insecurities.
After seeing hundreds of people being laid off and looking for jobs for months on LinkedIn I started questioning this so-called shortage of workers. See my mind works in a certain way. I like to look beneath the surface.
Is it the recruitment process? Is it HR/management bias? You know, maybe the candidates don’t fit the face that the organisation is looking for. We all know that managers often don’t do what’s best for the organisation.
As a person who’s studied psychology, research studies have proved how flawed and useless interviews are but then I started to think, do people like to feel powerful during interviews. The power of having someone kiss up to them during the process, telling them what they want to hear (lying), and the power of telling someone they were unsuccessful often due to their own set of biases.
I mean what happened to hiring based on potential and ability to put in hard work and prove oneself? No wonder why many have left the workforce. Isn’t that what the probation period is actually for?
I remember attending an interview once and I scored the highest out of 6 candidates but the organisation decided to re-list the role and start over. The funny part is that months later you usually find that these organisations are relisting the roles again. Sounds like a lot of company time being wasted to me.
This is not about me though, I just often wonder what type of people these companies have making decisions. According to the latest study by Essity, “The UK was ranked the worst for recruiting from diverse backgrounds and providing equal opportunities to all staff – falling behind Mexico, Ireland and USA”. Are you surprised?
The UK is behind on many things so there is a lot of work that needs to be done obviously; outdated systems, outdated processes, outdated thinking, wrong people in management, and lagging in leadership…
Recruitment needs to be looked at differently. You can’t change bias but you can change processes for the greater good of the organisation. Surely you are missing out on talent.
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