‘Lazy and mediocre’: HR team loses jobs after manager’s CV is automatically rejected | On trend

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Responding to a job seeker’s complaint about immediate rejection, the manager described his own experience. Both he and the job seeker received rejection emails at exactly 10:56 a.m., casting doubt on the evaluation process. “Automatic HR rejection systems make me angry,” the manager commented. “In three months we couldn’t find a single qualified candidate.”

An unexpected experiment

Determined to get to the bottom of the problem, the manager decided to investigate further. “I created a new email and sent them an altered version of my resume with a fake name,” he said. The results were alarming: he too was automatically rejected without any human verification of his qualifications. When he reported the situation to upper management, “half of HR was laid off in the following weeks,” he noted.

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The manager, who works in the technology industry, was trying to hire developers, but HR had set the automated system to look for candidates with expertise in the wrong software. They were looking for an AngularJS developer, even though the position required expertise in Angular, a completely different framework. “The really annoying thing was that I was constantly told that there were candidates who had not passed the initial selection process, which was false,” he added.

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Reactions on social media

Since then, the incident has garnered widespread attention, with social media users flocking to comment on the situation. Comments ranged from calling the recruiting team “lazy” to expressing solidarity with the manager. One user explained, “This is why automated systems should never replace human judgment,” while another noted, “HR should be more vigilant; This is embarrassing for the company.”