Interesting note on treatment of UoP graduates

Could it be that applicants are applying for a thousand positions to better their odds and options? To seek is human but to really spam requires a computer.

 

Dr. Osborne:

True, but what's to stop someone from bringing a perfectly frivolous suit against a perfectly legal corporate policy? Even if such a suit quickly draws SJ and sanctions, it still costs money to defend (or to collect those sanctions and fees), it still draws corporate resources away from where they might be better put to use.

Why have an internal policy--however legal, justifiable or constitutional--that has the same effect as waving a red flag before a bull? Corporate law is more about risk control than it is about much else. Butr then again, I'm no longer a corporate lawyer. Alas...

 

I'm sure this is the reason for the great increase in volume. You can log into monster.com and apply to many, many jobs in a single evening. But in the old days, you'd need to page through newspapers or trade journals and then send in cover letter and resume for each position -- you'd probably only manage a few per day.

 

You have a good point. I'm a bit spoiled because the job I hire for is so very specialized that I have never had a situation (except at the very worst point in the ATL job market around 2002) when I had more than about 50 applicants. I used to do it all myself but now pass everything through a recruiter, even though I don't really need to at all.

On the other hand, I have developed a pretty low opinion of most dedicated recruiters. Some of them are just so hopelessly lazy and useless to the point that you would get a better response pinning an ad up on the grocery store bulletin board. The hiring manager thinks the recruiter is busy finding them the best possible candidates out of a really vast pool of applicants... this may or not really be the case.