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What do I hate most? That there are jobs out there that I am fully qualified for, and that I can't get serious consideration for, because of inept and incompetent HR and recruiting dweebs.
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Have you considered it is not the inept and incompetent HR and recruiting dweebs as you call them that kept you from getting a job? Have you considered that someone else could have possibly been someone else what was a better hire.
1: That they may have been much more qualified than you are for the job. Just because you think you are qualified, does not mean you are as well qualified as someone else. And the job will be offered to someone with the most qualifications for the job. There are lots of people that meet the minimum qualifications, but there will almost always be someone that is superbly qualified. Remember, there may be 50 qualified if 200 people apply, but one to 5 will have more qualifications than the others. It is not the HR and recruiting people are inept and incompetent, but because they are good they will select the most qualified every time. They select which applicants are the most qualified, and then turn these over to the person that will be the HM or will make the final selection. From those applications the HM will select the ones that they will interview.
It is like poker. Someone with a full house will win most hands, but if someone has a royal flush, they take the pot. There may be several job applications that would be an equivalent of a full house in poker, but there is always one or two applicants that are the equivalent of a Royal Flush, and they will be the ones that get the job.
And when they interview you they may select someone they feel may have been a better fit to bring into the existing crew. No matter how good you are, there can always be someone else that is better qualified for a particular job.
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They have such one dimensional thinking. It bugs me to no end. I have been using computers almost all my life and yet I need certs to go into IT. I know as much as the Geek Squad if not more and that's without all the training. Let's think for a minute consider someone who has taught themselves the guitar versus someone who has gone to classes? Is the person who taught themselves any worse of a player than the one who has gone to classes? No not necessarily so why should jobs be any different?
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The personal department, has no way of knowing if you are qualified to do the job or not. The ones that did the classes, and the ranking they had in their classes, give them some guidance to use to make a decision. The have no way of telling if you are really qualified or not. When they demand certs, they are demanding certs. The certs will tell the HR department and the HM that this application has at least the minimum qualifications. Without them they have no way of judging your ability.
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1) Jobs that are already filled or are cancelled but for whatever reason the job is still posted.
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Sometimes it takes someone with enough time to go through their postings and get the job taken down. It does not happen automatically, and depending on how busy the person is that will take them all down it may take a little time to get it all done. They have other duties as well.
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2) Jobs that are posted , however we are simply "collecting resumes" and have no intention to actually fill the position
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They may be looking, to see if there is someone out there that they may want. It may be a particular job that is being done now, but they are always looking to see if they can find that perfect person for the job and if they find them, they will expand their department. There is no hurry, but they can do it if they find he perfect person.
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3) Jobs that are posted and are already guaranteed to someone internal, but we will post the job opening anyway
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This is often required, by Union Contract, or Federal/State laws and agencies. To keep out of trouble, and possible fines, they are required to do this.
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4) Uploading the resume and still having to retype/reenter everything that is already on the resume
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They do not have time to read all the resumes. The resumes do not work with their computer software, getting all the information in a manner they can quickly check the important boxes. It would take a lot more hours to check out a stack of resumes as it is a hunt and search process to read them, than it takes to read their standard applications. There will only be maybe 4 lines they will look at on an application, to select it for further evaluation or to reject it. They don't have the time it takes to find the same information on the resume, and if they get 500 applications that is probably a minimum in a large city or large company it would be a difficult job to check them all. In addition to day there is software that evaluates job applications. On those 4 lines they make the first cut from, it is not even done by humans.
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