As a reminder

Ok, this is just a reminder that my posts may have extreme content so if you are easily offended stop now, otherwise feel free to keep reading.

The thing to remember is that THE TRUTH HURTS AND I HAVE THE GUTS TO SAY IT.

Another day in the life of the American dream, as I sit at my computer filling in another 20 online applications, since no one can do it the old fashioned way, you know go to the place of business, get an application, sit there fill it out, attach your resume (if necessary) to the back, go take it back to the manager, they have a look at it and talk to you a few minutes, you know pre-interview to impress them, thank them for their time and go to the next place and do it again.

Hopefully after the 3rd or 4th place, you will get a call from one of them to go back for an interview and then get the job...........um yeah.......

Now its more along the lines of fill out online application, get shot to a link to do testing for experience, a personality assessment, situational assessment, morals assessment, and on and on and on......1 hour later you are still no closer to talking to a person, let alone having any idea if you "scored" high enough to even get that privilege.  Oh did I mention that apparently all he hiring for most of the companies are done from the main offices in which most of those are on the other side of the map.  How exactly does that work, I live in A the job applying for is in B which is 10m from me and my application has to go to C which is 2,543 m from me and the job I am applying for, now how exactly does that work, other than to completely remove the human interaction from the hiring process.  Call me old fashioned but isn't that how you find out what the person is really like?

Every day I look at the help wanted and everyone is hiring, but they "in my opinion", are being a little to damn picky as to who they hire.  I saw one job I actually had to snail mail a resume to, yeah can you believe that, I have a mountain of experience in the position they are looking to hire for and I have not heard back for even a phone interview "new version of physically sitting with manager", so I waited a few days after mailing, to give my resume time to get there, I called them and inquired about the position and they said it was filled 4 days prior.......UM WTF?!, so I politely inquired as to why the add was in the paper if the position was filled the same day the add was placed and I got the um, hmm, ahhhh, story.

I love those, Honestly they can provide you with at least a minute of entertainment, as you maintain your composure, trying not to rip into them and give them what for.  These are the things that make me wonder what the world is coming to.  Everyone wants the perfect person to hire and let me jump in with the truth, IF YOU WANT PERFECT HIRE GOD, because ain't no one perfect so take the next best one and move on.

Sorry lost my composure, now don't get me wrong online is good for a lot of things but hiring is not one of them, that should and always be person to person, not person to computer, computer to person, then person to person.  All that does is add another roadblock in the hiring process to make it more difficult than it needs to be, this is something that should always, ALWAYS, be kept at its simplest form. Person to person interaction, this is how humanity has made it this far and if we do not continue we will die off.

More to come cause this ain't over till the fat lady sings.............so to speak.