> By targeting internet companies in particular, I’d chosen an industry with a high likelihood of reliance on resume-processing algorithms.
Internet companies hire knowledge workers/creative types/snowflakes.
By contrast banks, insurance companies and departments like call center hire armies of drones.
You are much more likely to find automated resume analysis in the latter, it works much better there.
It's like hiring an NFL player.. you get the talent you pay for (sometimes)
An attitude like that will get you filtered out as not a culture match in a lot of places.
There are people who are able to work with people who do not much their culture perfectly, you know. There are even people who like working with people of differing experience levels instead of perpetuating their frat boy days well into their thirties; do you believe it?
It's the unwritten rules of professional jobs i.e. read a broadsheet and not a tabloid paper - this is what the infamous "The Unofficial Goldman Sachs Guide To Being A Man" is all about.
BTW I went to a bog standard comprehensive and did not go to Uni
Would you suggest a surgeon is just a tradesman after it just cutting meat so its totally like a butcher.
Banks hire knowledge workers/creative types/snowflakes.
In fact, they hire the absolute best-credentialed and most-experienced in the market. Our receptionists, mail and facilities staff at minimum had a Masters degree, went to a Tier 1 school and did something very interesting/exceptional with their off-time.
They just try to turn them into drones via compensation schemes and internal politics.
Our receptionists, mail and facilities staff at
minimum had a Masters degree, went to a Tier 1 school
I would have thought it would be difficult to convince a graduate from an Ivy League university or similar to take a janitorial job?
It's a situation a lot of us here forget or don't even know exists.
This was a highly-regarded financial.