A manager applied for his own team's opening—and was 'rejected' by an automated system.
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- ✓A manager got rejected for his own team’s senior associate vacancy after applying with a fake name.
- ✓He found the automated system rejected his CV in six minutes because he wrote React instead of React.js.
- ✓He said, "The CV of the person who wrote the job description," was ignored.
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- Economic Times
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- India Economy
A manager's experiment with his own company's job vacancy has sparked debate about automated recruitment after he claimed his application was rejected within six minutes because his CV listed React instead of React.js.
A manager has claimed that his company may have been rejecting qualified candidates for months because their CVs did not match a technical keyword exactly. He made the discovery after applying for his own company's senior associate vacancy under a fake name and receiving a rejection within six minutes.
The manager shared his experience on Reddit's r/recruitinghell forum. His Reddit post shared on X claimed that his team of nine needed a senior associate since April, but HR repeatedly told him the candidate pipeline was thin and applicants were failing the screening process.
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