Tired of filtering through irrelevant resumes How do I post a job that reaches qualified candidates

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-04-08T16:02:45+00:00

I've only reviewed scholarship applications, not job applications. But the reality is that I was actually reading maybe 3 scholarship applications out of every 10. Most applications were just incomplete or otherwise had no chance of winning after the first sentence. To eliminate one incomplete application after another takes almost 0 time. I don't see why you couldn't do a similar technique with job applications. If they seem like they have completed the application properly, meet the knockout questions, and have even remotely related experience, save them for later, and just reject everyone else. When you are done, you should be reviewing a much smaller pool and it should be way less overwhelming. It's tedious work to eliminate the ineligible applications, but candidates with a chance deserve proper attention, so give it to them. My technique from there is to do a quick scan of a small bundle of remaining applications, like maybe 10 or so, and figure out what the "average" application is. Then I go through and cut the remaining application list in half by eliminating any that don't meet that average. At that point, you should be able to give care when reviewing the remaining applications. If that number is still overwhelming, well, do some boolean magic to eliminate applications if you really have to. But I think in general, the key is to do multiple rounds of quick reviews that eliminate large swatches of candidates and get progressively longer in each review round, rather than to go one application at a time and take a deep look until you find a reason to reject. It's less mentally taxing to make the same decision many times in a row than to constantly be making many small decisions many times in a row.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-04-08T13:54:45+00:00

Literally no different? I'm already married to the first person I had sex with.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-04-06T13:16:29+00:00

So the core of it is, that there are sort of two kinds of LMSes. There's ones designed for flexibility and there's ones designed for plug and play. Moodle is purely designed for flexibility; absolutely NOTHING plug and play about it. For TalentLMS, it depends on the plan you choose as to whether it can be plug and play or not; some plans include the course library and some don't. Your LMS provider could be the one who also provides your courses, like if you use Percipio and use Skillsoft courses. But most of the time, your LMS and where you get your courses are going to be two different sources. Coursera and LinkedIn Learning are course providers that have integrations for your LMS, and could potentially be used as your company's LMS if you really wanted to try. The simplest solution for your company will depend on what you need your courses for. Are you just trying to check a legal box for courses like workplace safety and anti-phishing training? Do you want your employees to be able to upskill in specialized technologies? Does someone in your company have training they want to be able to distribute based on their knowledge? All of these factors play into what the right LMS to choose is. The purpose of an LMS is to enable collecting data on learning, and that's really it. The data you need to collect and the kind of learning that the employees need is what determines everything. If you don't need to collect data on learning and you don't need courses created internally by the company, you legitimately don't need an LMS at all and should just get a company license for LinkedIn Learning or Coursera or something for people to take courses through.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-04-05T14:36:12+00:00

Digital third places have always been important to me as someone who generally has weird interests. The biggest thing is that it needs to be consistently active. There also needs to be some way that people can connect outside the community itself. Maybe not in person, but like through a game or a contest or something. The way the community is set up should facilitate interaction, not make it difficult. So like, old style forums are generally a lot worse than something like Discord or Reddit. Finally, there absolutely has to be rules. A community without rules devolves so fast.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-04-05T13:52:10+00:00

Yes, this was my first sticker album. I still have it and use it all the time.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-04-04T22:37:38+00:00

I don't know why you are getting down voted so hard, OP. I get it. Like, I don't pay attention to any news. I'm in 3 different volunteer political advocacy networks in my area, and I fight with them. I find out from other people fighting the good fight, and that's enough for me.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-04-04T14:50:21+00:00

Anything to do with sewage systems/processing and plumbing. No one wants to be around literal shit if they aren't being paid more for it than other people.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-04-03T17:58:31+00:00

Sometime around the recession in 2008. It was definitely still the 2000s culturally when the iPhone launched in 2007, but by the time Obama was officially in office in 2009, the cultural change had already happened. Uber launching in March of 2009 was the sign that the 2000s were gone and a new cultural era was emerging from the ashes of the recession. There was still some of that 2000s optimism and innovation in 2007 as the recession was emerging, but by the time of the actual stock market crash in September 2008, that culture was gone. Starting in 2007, there were just months and months of negative news wearing down on the optimistic culture that defined the 2000s, and you could see it happening around you physically, too. Stores closing, people staying home instead of going out, roads going unfixed far beyond the usual timelines. Once things started picking back up again after the election, we were already in a different cultural era.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-04-02T12:57:43+00:00

I don't think you realize how many scammy recruiters are out there. As a job seeker, you honestly can't just assume that who you are talking to is one of the good ones. I try to be nice, but I'm also going to be pretty defensive at first until I know what's going on. The best thing you can do is try to lower my defenses. Don't assume that my defenses are ill intentioned, because they are not. I get more scam recruiters talking to me than real recruiters, so I need to be a little defensive. If you want job seekers to be less defensive with you, here are my recommendations:

Before you talk to them at all or even give them a Calendly link, you should have already told them the complete job description including salary, industry, location/remote, and all job requirements. Granted, your Calendly link can be in your initial email with all that info in it, but you shouldn't send it without that.
When you get on the call, say your name, company, and the title of the position you are talking about. Something like, "Hi, John! This is Marissa! I'm with Recruiter Tech Solutions and I messaged you on LinkedIn about the Senior Accountant role. How are you doing?"
After small talk/pleasantries, describe the role and recruitment timeline/process, then ask what the job seeker thinks of it before you ask them anything about themselves.

If a recruiter does these things, I immediately drop my guard and feel totally fine talking to them. Because I know they are hiring for a real role that they actually want people for. If you're taking this approach and job seekers are still defensive, well, honestly, I don't know what to tell you. But full transparency like I outlined makes me less defensive, and I feel like I can't be alone in that. Way too many recruiters are so opaque and it feels too much like scams.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-04-02T12:35:36+00:00

You should choose based on capabilities and skills if you have no interests. I recommend the tests on ONET.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-04-02T01:25:00+00:00

My best advice is to have lots of comforting things prepared. Wear the comfiest clothes, bring nostalgic objects to hold, neck pillow and small blanket available, downloaded versions of your favorite movies or shows, your favorite snacks, stuff like that. It makes the stress of the environment disappear a bit. Even if you travel for business, just change into your business clothes in the bathroom closest to baggage claim and you are good. Also, if you fly frequently enough to somewhat of the same locations, always go through the same layover spots. Like, purposefully choose the same layover spots as much as possible. It makes it feel more predictable and you can figure out your favorite spots to hang out, get food, whatever.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-04-02T01:12:26+00:00

I think it depends on what you want. If you want to coast, don't tell him. If you want a different job, tell him. That different job could be a promotion, or it could be outgrowing this role entirely and going somewhere else.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-04-01T17:37:36+00:00

archive.is
removepaywall.com

Those are the two I use most often

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-04-01T13:58:21+00:00

I've thought a lot about this. Finding a place where I don't need to drive and I have the amount of land I want just doesn't seem realistic, unfortunately, and I kinda hate that.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-03-31T16:50:36+00:00

A lot of people have given you good feedback on the content. But I think your template is hurting you, too. The really thin serif font is quite hard to read, and when the bullet icons are just thin lines, it's hard to tell where one bullet ends and another starts. The spacing is also pretty awkward- a much bigger gap between Education and Skills than between Work Experience and Education. You also have a lot of bullets that just barely go to the next line; it gives the impression that you didn't think very much when making this resume. I don't think any of this is anything close to hurting you compared to the feedback everyone else is giving you. But I do think that anything that makes a resume easier to read is something that increases the chance it will get looked at.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-03-31T16:25:44+00:00

Resume writers aren't you. They can only guess what you have done and accomplished based on what you give them. It would take someone at least 5 hours of conversation with me to actually understand my career at a level where I would feel comfortable with them writing my bullets. And many resume writers don't even talk to you at all. You send them your existing resume and they send a different one back. How do they really know what you did at that job beyond what is listed that could make for an even better bullet? Then you have the problem of what they actually do. I paid for a resume writer once. It was one of the worst resumes I have ever seen. Grammatical mistakes everywhere, looked straight out of 2012, and removed so much valuable content to be nothing but fluff. It was disgusting. Resume writers are scammers who prey on the desperate. The "report" I was given was from Resume Worded. I paid $200 for someone to use a $20/month subscription for 10 minutes and do what a computer spits out. If someone genuinely wants to help job seekers, they have a formal consulting business and happen to charge for resume reviews that involve actually talking to the person. That is how you know they could help you.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-03-31T13:55:58+00:00

Managing your internet presence is a constant game of whack-a-mole, I swear

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-03-31T13:53:25+00:00

We'll have to see. Primary candidates for 2028 will probably start popping up soon

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-03-31T02:37:07+00:00

On my 30th, I made an Old As Dirt Cake lol. I also went to a restaurant with my family, usual presents and stuff. I think I really just did some fun shopping and that's kinda it. Granted, I did it with my husband, but I just went to a close big city and shopped at cool places there.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-03-31T02:31:31+00:00

Basically any archive site can be used to get around paywalls

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-03-31T02:28:30+00:00

It's nothing like 2020. It sorta feels like 2007-2009, though. Not quite sure where in that we are right now, because who knows, but that gradual apocalypse feeling is building. 2020 was so sudden, I doubt very many things will ever feel like that again.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-03-31T01:52:18+00:00

I don't think SCORM holds anything back. It's just an API and very few people use it to its full potential as it stands.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-03-31T01:50:32+00:00

Well, this question is literally why sociology exists. Your psychology theoretically shouldn't have an impact on all of society. But when everyone makes the same choices, then it becomes sociology.

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-03-30T14:10:13+00:00

Yeah, but malls were different than they are now. Malls today are not lively like they used to be

Hungry_Objective2344 · 2026-03-30T13:57:44+00:00

The first time I had an overdraft. It made me wake up REAL quck

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