I think Tinder has ruined the hiring process. I have a few friends who go on a 30-minute blitzkrieg of right-swipes before we go out at night. It’s a numbers game. If you connect with everyone, then maybe someone will connect with you. It doesn’t go any deeper than that, and I kind of get it.
The same depressing phenomenon happens when we post a job listing—we get hundreds of replies that are so cookie-cutter, so copy-pasted that I can just tell we’re on the other side of someone’s rapid right-swipe. To the point that our postings have become so specific and obscure that just the subject line tells me whether you’ve read it. Unfortunately, there could also be some brilliant applicants out there who have fallen into the auto response trap. So how do you dazzle us with your sheer brilliance and talent? Continue Reading…