New entrants, incumbents, and the search for knowledge: the role of job title ambiguity in the US information and communication technology industry, 2004–2014 https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04918213&r=&r=ict
"… job titles offer a meaningful public source of information to select #poaching targets
… knowledge workers whose job titles were more ambiguous tended to be less likely to be poached by other employers. These results are strongest for mobility to industry incumbents.
… New entrants as well as lateral entrants tend to be less sensitive to job title ambiguity than industry incumbents
… #recruiters shy away from knowledge workers with ambiguous job titles
… In contexts characterized by a scarce supply of workers and high degrees of poaching… job title #ambiguity may act as a meaningful way to reduce the poaching of workers from other employers
… firms may decide to strategically leverage ambiguous job titles to increase the odds of #retention of valuable #humanCapital and the knowledge associated with it
… While #jobTitles may serve as a buffer against incumbent firms, they may be less effective against the poaching attempts of entrants or employers active in other industries."
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@GossiTheDog if I was a #CSIA employee, Iwould've packed bags already and pitched my #CV to @bsi, #HAYS, #roberthalf, #AmadeusFire and other #Recruiters in the #EU instead...
Source: Center for American Progress
From the article: "Essentially, all employees and job seekers, a total of approximately 153 million Americans, benefit from the protections the EEOC provides. The Equal Pay Act—a law requiring equal pay for equal work that the EEOC enforces—covers virtually all employers, while other laws enforced by the EEOC apply to all but the smallest employers. Whether they work in the private sector or for the government, practically all employees and those applying for jobs are protected by the EEOC against illegal employer actions" (Annotations removed for clarity)
#EEOC #EqualEmploymentOpportunityCommission #AcceptanceMatters
#Discrimination #Disabled #Ableism #ADA #Elderly #Ageism #Minorities #PeopleOfColor #Racism #Gender #Sexism #Pregnancy
#SexualOrientation #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQDiscrimination #LGBTQIAPlus #Lesbian #Gay #Bisexual #Transgender #TransgenderDiscrimination #Queer #Intersex #Asexual #NonBinary
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One of my favourite recruitment experiences was being approached to be a “software implementation specialist” for some niche enterprise software asking for “experience in foo module”.
I had invented the foo module for this software. They had no clue.
Much fun was had.
A recruiter messages me on LinkedIn asking me if I'm interested in a specific job.
From the job title and description, it seems likely that it is going to be a significant step down in both responsibility and salary.
I respond that the job sounds interesting but it seems likely etc. so to make sure it's worth continuing the discussion, I need to know the salary range for the position.
He responds,: Let's have a phone call! Can you send me your resume here?
#jobHunting #recruiters
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Calling all #Recruiters! Sign up for the Career Village at #BSidesPhilly!
You can make a difference in the lives of people choosing a career in #cybersecurity. Join us and share your hiring insights, advice, and tips on resumes and interviews!
Contact us at info@bsidesphilly.org
'A lot of demoralized people': #Ghostjobs are wreaking havoc on #tech #workers
"Ghost #jobs," or ads for positions that aren't actually open, are common in tech, which has been plagued by #layoffs and budget cuts over recent years. As unemployed workers struggle to regain their footing, recruiters and career coaches who spoke with SFGATE warned that these fake jobs posted by real companies serve multiple, sometimes insidious purposes say #Recruiters and #careercoaches
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/ghost-jobs-california-tech-industry-19871249.php
Calling all #Recruiters! Sign up for the Career Village at #BSidesPhilly!
You can make a difference in the lives of people choosing a career in #cybersecurity. Join us and share your hiring insights, advice, and tips on resumes and interviews!
Contact us at info@bsidesphilly.org
#Protip: If you call me, you better have your Audio legible and not sound like someone dropped a Iridium Satellite Phone into the Water Cooler tank in a Cubicle hellscape
- If you can't do that, don't call me but sent me an eMail like any sane person who values their (opponent's) time does!
APPLY LOCALLY - On the backend, #recruiters can see where you applied (Indeed, #LinkedIn Easy Apply, etc.). The smallest amount of applications come directly through the company site and they sometimes get higher priority because it shows you were interested enough to look up the company and presumably did a little research while you were there. It’s a tiny detail, but take any chance to bump your chances of being seen.
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Today I got a templatized rejection letter from an executive recruiting firm. What makes it funny is: 1) They called me, 2) I didn't apply for anything (I'm happy in my current role), 3) I met with their client to help place friends and contacts of mine, and worse, 4) when I met with them, their SVP talked for 23 min of a 30 min "conversation." I called the recruiter back and said, "Listen, this role and company is definitely not right for me, it's probably not right for anyone I know, but I'll call some people I know to check." The next day, the recruiter called back and said they were going with someone a little more "tactical" (what does that even mean?!) and that his client really liked what they heard from me.
It's like we were living in separate realities.
Now tell me again, why don't I use recruiting firms for my company or for me in my professional life?
@TindrasGrove @teriradichel @jerry Third-party #recruiters are everywhere and many of them are bottom-feeders that scrape existing job postings to position themselves as a middleman in the #hiring process.
It’s comical when I hear from multiple recruiters that are clearly pitching the same exact #job description, sometimes working for the same “agency.” (There is no legitimate agency, just a contractor call center.)
@hal_pomeranz @correl Also #AI has infected #employers’ and #recruiters’ applicant tracking systems to the point where candidates are using #LLM countermeasures to adapt their resumes/CVs to increasingly bowdlerized job descriptions
Ghosting.
Mailboxes you can't respond to.
Automated short-listing.
Gatekeeping by internal #recruiters who can barely be bothered to read a CV, let alone a cover letter.
All so you can't get to the hiring manger who knows enough to actually evaluate your suitability.
And the moment I get a sniff of interest, I have to plaster on a smile & pretend I'm interested in their bullshit. Only to find they've only seen half the info I've submitted.
"Why bother? You're just wasting your time."
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people who like #linkedin truly frighten me…
why [rhetorical]
why [also, rhetorical]
it has been described to me as #tiktok for #recruiters
but looks like #facebook for #capitalists #workaholics & people who think their boss is their friend
none of that is enticing
Unfortunately, in a metrics driven world, things are cruel and terrible.
“Around 17% say up to three quarters of their job announcements aren’t genuine, while 21.5% say ghost jobs account for half of all positions they post, 36% say a quarter of their postings are fake or already filled, and 18% of headhunters report that less than one tenth of their work advertisements aren’t real.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/looking-struggle-headhunters-making-even-122909734.html
Do #Recruiters (sorry, Talent Acquisition Specialists 
) bother to read cover letters any more? The likes of Indeed will give me all the tips in the world on how to write one but when I clearly state "I'm looking for a fully remote role" it apparently doesn't register with the #recruitment team. 
#JobHunt #JobInterview #JobSearch
Hey, #recruiters, here's How Not to Do It™:
1) At 8:59am, tell a candidate that you're going to try to set up a tech test for them tomorrow at 10:00.
2) Be silent the rest of the day. Until after 8:00 pm
3) Wait for candidate to text you back at 8:05 pm to confirm, "do I have a tech exam tomorrow morning at 10?"
4) Finally text back at 11:22 pm, saying yeah, you sure do, and I'll send you a link soon! 
Do not be That Guy.
Holy fuck.
Happy Monday. So far this week I've had one recruiter cancel our scheduled call and another simply ghost me. #jobsearch #Recruiters #jobs
Why have three different recruiters contacted me today for an Angular role? Angular isn't on my résumé. I understand when they just do the laziest possible pattern-matching, but in this case, they *failed* to even pattern-match accurately. What the heck?