Recruitment is broken . We followed this journey. The internet made it easy and free to post ads. The internet made it even easier and free to apply for jobs. The incremental cost of time and money in applying for 100 more jobs became effectively zero. Thus every job became inundated with applicants. Thus every recruiter used rudimentary, objective & deeply boring and unimaginative ways to make the inbound numbers manageable. At the best using dull criteria like "degrees", at the worst filtering for words and then using stupid forms of AI. And they could never spend time getting back to unsuccessful candidates, let alone give feedback. Recruiters kept job ads vague as it makes people feel vulnerable to be interesting and strange on the internet, and they kept old postings for jobs they no longer needed people for because it "looked good" and why not keep fishing. See the next bit in comments. …see more