"Employers don’t do their own hiring, and that’s the #1 problem. Employers have outsourced their competitive edge — recruiting and hiring — to third parties whose heads are so far up The Database Butt that this little consortium should be investigated by Congress."
This. Personally, I completely and absolutely blame the employers for this mess that they have "talent shortage". I am amazed with the whole recruiting ecosystem if there is such thing here. People are the most important assets of a company and giving this responsibility to a third party (read vendors/recruiters/agencies) just does not work. But again, most companies do not really bother about this. Until we stop calling people as "resources" and "head counts", this broken recruiting model will never change.
These "vendor databases" that he is talking about is a major irritation. I still get emails from some random recruiting firm where I might have sent my Resume as a fresh desperate undergrad 10+ years ago. This needs to stop.
This. Personally, I completely and absolutely blame the employers for this mess that they have "talent shortage". I am amazed with the whole recruiting ecosystem if there is such thing here. People are the most important assets of a company and giving this responsibility to a third party (read vendors/recruiters/agencies) just does not work. But again, most companies do not really bother about this. Until we stop calling people as "resources" and "head counts", this broken recruiting model will never change.
These "vendor databases" that he is talking about is a major irritation. I still get emails from some random recruiting firm where I might have sent my Resume as a fresh desperate undergrad 10+ years ago. This needs to stop.