Recruitment is broken, what are businesses doing to fix it? | FT Working It

Recruiters have to spend a lot of time reading applications… aka they have to do their job 😮

How is there a shortage of skilled workers when 90% of graduates I know can't get a job? Keep in mind these are graduates from a top 10 UK university. There is no shortage, there is a huge oversupply of workers since most jobs have been outsorced to other countries.

very good

The real problems are companies like Arctic shores creating complicated systems and therefore 'creating' the problem of 'skill' shortage

I work in recruitment and I can tell you the majority of companies' HR are unbelievably picky and are turned off by candidates for the most petty things. They're lazy and don't want to put the time into training. It actually angers me when they say there's a shortage of "talent" when I speak to hundreds of people a week looking for work and I know I can't place them anywhere.

They don’t want to take the time to train people, witch was a given in the past time. Let’s just call it what it is. No matter what you study you have to learn how to do your particular job

I've never understood why companies don't just hire anybody, start training them, and if they can't do the training, let them go.

So it’s OK firms to use AI but how dare candidate use it? I’ll never use it but I get why people do after dozens of applications receive no reply.

Also this clip spews out the diversity crap which has now been debunked as the Goldman Sachs report had it backwards: diversity does not help you succeed - getting the right people does

No such thing as skills shortage. Just greedy employers who don't want to pay a fair wage.

HR Recruitment been using AI to recruit to make the test subjects onto pointless tests. 👨🏼‍🔬🐀

They make AI and market it and now when people use it to apply for jobs they dont like it, what do you think HR people are doing, they get all their Job description from? HR needs up skilling. The recruitment team members qualifications should be assesses. It is not fair in any ways.

For my thoughts, I think the hiring part is very hilarious because if that candidate is picked he or she will be doing chores for that workplace regardless if the position is that great or not while the rest of the 75 resumes are left behind and plus pple sadly enjoying a life with no chores for a workplace hilariously but sadly not getting paid within a tragedy. In addition, I think another problem is that pple on the very top adds too much bulletin point chores but if the chores were equally split then another candidate could be hired but sadly doesn't work that way

AI fake CVs and fake skills give jobseekers a bad name 😮

Even uf you wirk now. You will make enough for yourself only but not to have a family life. They dont want humans, so good luck with "ai" and robots.

I am believe on you. Everything will have a chance. sometimes the recruitment will be the heavy cause for population. It is very interesting.

The game with the roulette from Siemens is another script idea for the Office. Really?! The select people on how quick they press a button in a game?! WTF?!

Shortage of talent? These employers are full of themselves and completely delusional. Unnecessary requirements for the most basic jobs that are paying the lowest pay. These arrogant and narcissistic employers want your soul. They get a great deal of pleasure watching people begging them for a job and then rejecting them. Nothing to do with a shortage of talent.

Hopefully, at long last, workers will be paid what they are really worth. For too long there’s been a large pool of talent for recruiters to choose from, and this for many meant lower wages.

So I've been unemployed and looking for a job for nearly 18 months in the UK (software engineering, which is flooded with candidates because big tech is still somehow shedding jobs like crazy after 2 years). What irks me is that recruiters are sifting endlessly through thousands of applicants to find a unicorn. Just pick the first 20 that apply and find the best from that bunch. That's what we did when there was a shortage in the market. You'd get 10 people who applied, you interviewed 5, and then picked the best one and moved on. Most people who have a reasonable level of experience and skills are pretty interchangeable and then you select for which personality fits the team. It should not be endless rounds of interviews, and reposting the job every few weeks. If you can't fill a position within two weeks, maybe it wasn't urgent to begin with.

I love how the comments are almost universally scathing.

There isn’t a skills shortage. There’s a shortage of on the job training.

“What are business doing to fix it?”

Literally anything but train new people.

its not HR its the companies they redic ... theyll get good people or skilled people and someone doesnt like that theyre actually working and so they fire them

HR destroyed the work world

Unbelievable! From personal experience HR is the worst particularly when it comes to highly technical roles. I was once asked to highlight some of my technical skills and the HR/In-house recruiter person sat there so confused as to what these are. HR are too involved in hiring, they do not have the technical knowledge to hire most people, if the company itself wants serious employees they need to let Managers/Experienced staff judge a candidates skill, it would really go a long way for the company. Legend has it that you can get past HR interviews using keywords such as inclusivity, team work, reliability, self motivated, creativity and no technical knowledge 😂😂, make sure to greet loads and say thank you 😂😂

Skills shortage = I invented an impossible applicant character in my mind and nobody can meet those requierements, surely it’s the applicants that are at fault

Hiring good candidates is easy, just allow remote working and 4 day weeks and there's no shortage of talent.

The FT live in the land of delusion.

The damage has already been done. It will take a generational shift to even have a chance of fixing it.

There is a lack of obedient, willing slaves for the corporate grind 😅

Oh my god! I'm only 6 minutes into this video but I have not heard this much of a load of bollocks in a very long time.

Love this is the only reference I’ve seen to my own profession since starting (18 month actuary) haha

There is a shortage of Luigis - we need more like him

If 'quick apply' is such a problematic feature, why does nobody ever float the idea of getting rid of it, rather than throwing fuel on the dumpster fire of A.I. and throwing a problem on top of another problem.

Keep it simple. Read the job requirement. So many apply for a job. So far away from their capabilities. AI cannot pick 80% of the job market. Which is filled with people who know each other. And the applicants friends or colleagues recommonmend them. Within that organisation or company that is recruiting. Networking.

ridiculous

This video feels a bit one-sided towards employers. Time spent on applications is a two-way street between both employees and employers, it is not just applicants who spend time but als employers who ghost a candidate after he spent time and effort to make an application. Employers also use AI to skim through vast number of applicants, oftentimes not even having a human looking at your CV because it already has been sorted out beforehand. I mean, why is it bad if applicants are able to save time and effort in applyin but then leave out that employer also AI to save time and effort when processing those applications? Why is it bad if pre-formulated phrases are used by applicants but leave out that companies also use mass pre-formulated messages when rejecting applications? Why is it that applicants having a "skill shortage" is bad but then leave out the part where companies are also less willing to actually traing those skill in-houe by offering less (actual) entry level positions for people who do not have those skill? Every coin has two sides, but only one side is being touched on here.

Boo hoo. Considering many recruiters don't even respond to applicants if the have or haven't got through to an interview. HR and recruiters are just employment pimps.

It might help if HR recruiters would actually understand what they are hiring for. Sadly they don't.

The new idea being floated is to have candidates interview with an AI avatar before meeting a real person. 😂 i mean do they really think top or even medium talent will do that? Hint: they won't

Hiring on aptitude - IBM has been doing this for 100 years. Best way

It is much more valuable to hire based on actual collaboration.

Internal talent/job market: Google has been doing this for almost 25 years.

capitalism didn’t account for social costs, nothing surprising

Kick out the HR departement. They are sexist and ageist.

Those poor poor hiring managers. For years they’ve used software to filter applications and just quickly skimmed a CV in like a minute. Now applicants are just inserting the phrases that get them through the filtering and spending no time writting their CVs since the HR doesn’t read them anyway.

It's not a skills gap. As soon as there are more companies and applicants have more options suddenly the skills gap disappears.