The Application Factory - The Human Consequences of the Automated Job Hunt

The system is not selecting for the people it claims to want. It is selecting for the people best able to navigate its dysfunction.

Some brilliant writing by brainfooder James Hutt, who spoke to a job candidate named “Dhruba” and learned of the intense pressure on job seekers who are forced to automate the job search, to cope with employers automating the talent acquisition. Is it a broken system or just one undergoing profound, unmanaged transformation, due to evolutionary pressure on both sides of the market? Whichever the case, one of the understated points James makes rings absolutely true: the best options exist outside the optimisation game.