Impolite recruiter wrongly rejects job candidate over location: 'You need to pay more attention to postings'

To put it mildly, it's an interesting time to be searching for a job as an employee — or looking for a candidate as a recruiter. You don't have to tell that to this person, who is clearly in the trenches already, but their exchange with a recruiter is a good reminder of what it's like for people on both sides of the job-searching equation. 

The issue is that it's become quite easy to apply for a job. Too easy, in fact. On a lot of job-searching sites these days, you can submit your résumé in just a few clicks, and the sites are thrilled to promote that to those seeking employment. That means that thousands of people are going to be applying to the same position, whether they're really qualified or not, because what do they have to lose? If you can apply to be a CFO or senior manager in like 3 clicks, why not do it? 

This mentality has a cost, though. Now, instead of having a handful of candidates to pick through, hiring managers are inundated with waves of applicants who may or may not be qualified for the role. And for candidates, this might mean that instead of applying for 10 jobs and getting an interview for 2, they're applying for 100 and getting a call back for just 1. It's a tough problem to solve!

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