I\u2019m wondering if I should get together with a few of my retired friends and create a recruiting company.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve all got computers, management skills, we\u2019ve all been hiring managers, and perhaps we could bring some much needed clarity and professionalism to recruiting.<\/p>\n
Based on the recruiters and recruiting agencies I\u2019ve interacted with over the past five years I\u2019m of a mind that we could bring value to an industry that honestly feels like dealing with a bunch of used car salesmen. Dealing with recruiting firms shouldn’t make you feel like you\u2019ve been slimed.<\/p>\n
The latest interaction with a recruiter is a real winner. I went to the trouble of creating an interview scheduling template a few weeks ago. It\u2019s worked fairly well although there have been a couple of bumps along the way. (Just a little fine tuning here and there plus sending a couple of feature requests to improve the product.<\/em>)<\/p>\n For the latest winner, I forwarded the link when they sent the inevitable \u201cWhat times are good for you for a phone call,<\/em>\u201d message. My schedule is generally open but there are some things that pop up in my calendar that make me unavailable.<\/p>\n The recruiter, sent back an email saying they couldn\u2019t commit to a particular time and instead picked Monday from 8am to 3pm. Really?<\/p>\n Now we\u2019ve got recruiters that think they\u2019re cable repair people? Super unprofessional!<\/p>\n Why did they send me the question in the first place? If their schedule is so full they have to pick a range of times (essentially their entire workday,) then why didn\u2019t they just say from the outset, \u201cI\u2019ll call you on Monday,\u201d?<\/p>\n Were I to create a company, I think I\u2019d call it “No BS recruiters\u201d maybe \u201cNaked Recruiting\u201d with a tag line \u201cWe strip your Job Search process to the essentials<\/em>“.<\/p>\n I\u2019d structure the process with no cute pictures, no goofball psych testing, no DEI, and automatically choose \u201cDecline to answer,\u201d on all Race, Gender, or National origin questions. The only valid question is \u201cAre you authorized to work in the United States, Will you require sponsorship in the future?”<\/p>\n I\u2019ll bet between the people I know, we could stand up a recruiting business in less than a month. The long poles would be settling on some kind of CRM software and setting up secondary phone numbers on our phones. I\u2019m pretty sure we could have phone numbers up & running in less than 4 hours. The CRM software might be a little more difficult. That\u2019s just because we\u2019d want something that didn\u2019t cost an arm & a leg and that wasn\u2019t providing features we didn\u2019t want or need. In other words, something that worked and didn\u2019t require a whole staff to maintain.<\/p>\n One thing I\u2019d add would be AI evaluation of resumes to catch people who\u2019ve lifted sections from other people\u2019s resumes, then determine who really did what.<\/p>\n I\u2019m talking about a process that would be totally merit based. Something that connected hiring folks, to folks needing to be hired, bypassing all the stupid shit.<\/p>\n Maybe just present resume images instead of forcing the prospective employee to redundantly fill out dumb boxes on a site, then fill out those same dumb boxes on the prospective employer\u2019s site, (because why would there be any data transfer,) in addition to putting in all the work on their resume in the first place.<\/p>\n You know, OLD SCHOOL!<\/p>\n The job search process at this point is more complex than applying for a freaking security clearance. It\u2019s easier to apply to run for Congress than to get through some of the job applications.<\/p>\n I\u2019m talking about applications for simple jobs. Even retail an application these days is often a multipage form. In my first retail positions the test was essentially does the person have a pulse?<\/p>\n I\u2019m curious about this phone interview on Monday. Based on the initial contact email I think this \u201crecruiting\u201d firm is really trying to sell me something and it\u2019s not a job, it\u2019s training to enter the IT field.\u00a0<\/p>\n If that\u2019s the case, I\u2019m just pissed off enough to send letters to the initial website that I applied on, better business bureau, Ken Paxton AG of Texas (the company is based in TX), and possibly to President Trump.<\/p>\n If a company is posting a job, then that\u2019s it. They shouldn\u2019t be trying to run some kind of bait and switch. That\u2019s dishonest and begs the question; \u201cAre these folks just trying to steal my identity?<\/em>“<\/p>\n Why Trump? Because as a businessman who\u2019s trying to get this country\u2019s economy really rolling again, he might see the threat.<\/p>\n What threat? That\u2019s easy. If people are frustrated to the point that they give up entirely, and filling out a welfare form is easier than filling out a job application. America won\u2019t have a roaring economy based on American workers, companies will be able to legitimately say they need foreign workers because all the Americans are on the dole.<\/p>\n For more than 25 years, I\u2019ve said outright the abuse of the H1B1 system by Corporate America is tantamount to Treason.<\/p>\n And don\u2019t even get me started on Presidents Bush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m wondering if I should get together with a few of my retired friends and create a recruiting company. We\u2019ve all got computers, management skills, we\u2019ve all been hiring managers, and perhaps we could bring some much needed clarity and professionalism to recruiting. Based on the recruiters and recruiting agencies I\u2019ve interacted with over the … <\/p>\n