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[–] CeepsNo ago 

I just know sometimes they know they will hire so and so's son but they must still reject people

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[–] Prophet_60091_ ago 

Having quotas on how many people you turn down is bad business and stupid if you think about it. It costs time and money to recruit people. Yeah there are a lot of applications, but you have to wade through all of them to find the ones that are worth the time to interview.

You then have to spend the time to interview them. This also costs a lot as you often have to pull people from the team they'd be joining. That means that during the interview the interviewer(s) are not only spending their time interviewing (during which the company is paying them) but they're not doing their original job so there is lost productivity there.

The idea of interviewing a lot of just so you can pride yourself in rejecting so many is not only childish but it's bad business.

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[–] jobes 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

I work at a fortune 100 tech company and no, there are not quotas. I'll have time where I'll interview 6 people in a week and then times where I don't interview anyone for a few months because they're just aren't people qualified, interested or willing to fill the roles at the locations. Interviewing someone almost always require airfare, hotel and ~2.5 hours of 6 highly paid engineers or managers time (prep work, interview, leaving detailed feedback, debrief meeting). If recruiting brings in a highly unqualified candidate for a role, we complain loudly for the time and cost waste. Usually those people are filtered out in a phone screen, but recruiting events and blitzs can have some rough edges.

On the flip side, yes I've seen recruiters get fired for having low performance in the number of people they bring in while at former companies. Maybe some recruiters are given quotas at some places, but it's fucking expensive to interview someone.

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[–] marky1991 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Yeah, it my company's HR did this, we would all be very upset and would just end the interview after 15 minutes. It is much worse to waste all of the interviewers' time than to not have anyone to interview.

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[–] jobes 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

We don't have the luxury of ending an interview early. Interviewers are not allowed to discuss their session with another interviewer. The detailed feedback is logged and required in order to use as a defense in case the interviewee sues.

That's right. Some people make a shit load of money off of suing companies for claiming they weren't given a fair chance at interviewing for the job, or that they were discriminated against while interviewing.

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[–] CujoQuarrel ago 

Well, where I worked they used to try to bring in like 5 people for each open position.

BTW. Sometimes they would bring in people for a non-existing position (one that had already been filled). Still went thru the motions.

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[–] spooz 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

One thing to bear in mind with job applications is applicant scanning software which is used by many big companies and also recruitment agencies. If your application doesn't pass the software your application goes no further.

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[–] JonnyX 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

I've worked for a few government funded nonprofits, and we were required to interview at least three people for every open position. 90% of the time we already knew who we were going to hire before the position even posted, but still had to go through the motions for reporting purposes. The company I work for now has a similar situation, while I don't get to participate in the interviews (yet), I was recently promoted, and my supervisor was explaining that they had to post the new position, keep it up for a week, then interview any qualified candidate (especially if they were internal), before they could "make their decision", which had been made about a month before the position even opened up.

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[–] l23r 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Some places, like civil service or non-profit jobs, need to advertise the position. Thing is, by the time they put the ad up on their website or Charityvillage, they have already informally chosen who they intend to hire.

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[–] illbrbwithmyflipflop [S] ago 

Is there a way to tell when this has happened? I'd rather not waste my time with these people.

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[–] l23r 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Not that I can tell. Just assume that any job is like that.

Even when I got hired at a fast food place in Uni, it was because I was friends with someone who already worked there. When other people were hired, at least 75% of the time it was a friend or family member of an employee or the boss, and the times that it wasn't it was because they were desperate for people to fill in open shifts and couldn't find anyone. When they needed new workers they would come to us and ask if anyone we knew needed a job.