Rather ironic both of those fields still require a fucking obscene amount of internship.

If a business is being strangled or held back by HR, a CEO is failing at their job.

Should have recognized the problem in a department not being measured and disciplined properly. HR is supposed to be a Resource. Not a liability.

If we feel that good about HR today, then why in the hell do companies outsource what can be the most valued department in the entire company? They literally help find the resources that run the machine.

Is it limited liability somehow? Can't sue for discrimination after not being hired because third-party outsourced finger-pointing blame game? Why DO companies trust HR outsourcing agencies if the general consensus is they're right up there with lawyers and MBAs come the Revolution?

I'd want more of a pulse on those initially responsible for fueling the machine. Fail at that alone, and it doesn't matter how good your products or sales are. A CEO might not even be aware that their own outsourced HR department running a convoluted mouse trap of an application process, is (auto) rejecting applicants at three times the average.

To be fair to the applicants, an often repeated complaint is the moronic concept of requiring experience for entry-level positions. Which likely means 95% of the rejects shuffle their way down the hall to the internship department in order to try and get that experience.

Perhaps if more employers remembered the logical horse and cart order here..

Yeah. We even have words for them too. Cronies and Nepotists.

If "elite" universities hardly needing the money even suggest they allow and support buying someones admission, then they've just admitted they're not an institution that exists for the sake of providing an excellent education to those who deserve it.

They're now a common whore merely negotiating price.

Why bother to hire a consultant, who will most likely be using AI anyway?

We may soon find the real failure is the fact that a Recession has been going on for years now.

Automation, is a convenient excuse. Much like publicly-traded companies posting ghost positions for the sake of maintaining stock price.

Uh, those aren't "students" anymore. They're valued customers. Also known as how we got here.

Look on the bright side. I'll bet that nerd wearing all those pieces of flair would do great in Marketing.

Since he was trying to be helpful with a response specifically lacking in detail, perhaps you should have granted him the same by politely informing him that you are retracting your application immediately due to some alarming deficiencies in leadership you've recently discovered.

I'm certain he would have found some value in that feedback at the 3AM executive emergency meeting targeting every skeleton in every corporate closet..

30 years ago the transaction per second rate was considerably less.

Just because technology has enabled many more trades to happen in that same single second, doesn't mean value has been inherently created that must "come" from somewhere.

Tends to be how value becomes overhyped bullshit turning a stock market into a house of cards. Not unlike today.

The only electric vehicles that have the potential to meaningfully impact climate change are electric trains. Everything else is just virtue signalling to make people feel better about their consumptive lifestyles.

Employers would be wise to start eliminating that whole ringknocker mentality about college degrees being the ultimate gatekeeper to filling positions with competent people.

Just from a cost perspective, it's likely a hell of a lot cheaper to accommodate the 2-year graduate of community college and a bit of OJT vs. the four-year graduate demanding a six-figure starting salary, because student loans. Every time.

Attended a high school graduation a couple of years ago. The school was practically bragging about how 90% of the graduating class were honor graduates. Really wanted to stand up and ask the Principal to define "bell curve" for the audience that knows damn well how they get their funding.

Not to mention Leave No Child Behind. Reducing education down to the lowest common denominator has real consequences. Employers are feeling that now.

Regarding interview performance, speaking to a candidate in person should convey at least a sense of applicant compatibility if you know how to conduct an interview and not merely have a "chat". If they bring their Mom to the interview, you likely already know how compatible they aren't.

Zillow believes they're still relevant. Unless we're going to eliminate the overhead and significant cost home buyers pay to realtors, I see little reason to sustain or justify Zillows existence. We know how this market worked before they came around.

MLS isn't some coveted mystery complete with secret handshakes. If basic competition can send your stock price tumbling, your stock price was as grossly overinflated as the ego that assumes competition will have no real impact.

If Google allows and fully supports the search query "Realtors near me", is it Googles fault people are too brainwashed to believe Zillow the Almighty is the only way to buy real estate?

Google delivers pages of search results. Laziness coupled with ignorance refuses to scroll past the first (sponsored) hit.