Let's talk about the real problem: Recruiters
This is not a shit post about recruiters, but there is a big problem in the recruiting world that needs to be addressed.
I recently concluded a study with a team of nerds where, as part of the study, we interviewed 112 recruiters from all kinds of US companies to understand how they source for jobs, review resumes, and decide who to call/reject. What we found was shocking:
Understaffing: 96% of the recruiters we surveyed worked +50 hours per week just to keep up, and their companies had no intentions of hiring help despite acknowledging the issue
High workload: The average number of open reqs per recruiter was 23. That's 23 jobs open simultaneously, each receiving an average of 431 resumes per day.
Low pay: on average, recruiters make $62k per year working 50h a week that's ~$24/h
Changing priorities and unreasonable expectations: 41% of the recruiters we surveyed believed hiring managers' expectations were unreasonable, with 27% qualifying hiring managers as delusional
No show: On average 25% of candidates will fail to show up for at least one interview and 35% of all candidates will drop off at some point during the interview process and that usually falls on the recruiter to keep them "warm"
These are just the top issues, and none of them are caused by recruiters but rather by the companies they work for. I am not saying all recruiters are angels but to blame it all on them in unfair. I used to shit on recruiters myself but having talked to a lot of them I genuinely think they are just the easiest target to blame.