Agencies

[cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org]

> Some times, it's an agency that's doing the filtering.  Most of the 
> one's I've talked to, tend not to know the situation.

Ah, yes, I forgot about that option.

Yes, it would certainly add to the "lack of clue" if the organization
doing some filtering isn't even really related to the one doing the
actual hiring.

A major point to "agencies" is that they get in piles of resumes, and
will do [whatever it is they do] to filter that down to the few that are
purportedly useful.

Compare that to BigCorp Inc announcing a job in the papers, and having
2700 applicants send in resumes, of which 2400 were completely
frivolous, but where many of those would happily come back and sue
BigCorp Inc if they found any evidence that those resumes weren't all
treated according to a policy of "due respect."

Essentially, the agency does the trashcanning of the _really_ frivolous
ones, separating BigCorp Inc from a whole whack of paperwork, and
possibly some legal liability vis-a-vis possible discrimination.  The
agency might use screening criterion that BigCorp isn't allowed to, but
as long as nobody asks and nobody tells, both parties remain happy.

And those that might have been discriminated against have nobody to go
after, because:
 a) BigCorp didn't do anything wrong, and
 b) AgencyScreener wasn't going to hire them because they don't hire
    _anybody_.

It's pretty crummy, in some ways, but I'm not sure but that the
alternatives might be worse :-(.
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