On Hiring Humans

I have had the opportunity in my career to apply for a relatively high number of jobs. In that time I have learned that there are generally two categories that can be used to describe employers.

The first category is employers that hire robots. These employers request input for a job. Good little robots fill out forms and submit documents and fill out all the spots with the little red asterisk, meaning required, and they all are required. Once the little robot has now entered a request for employment and it will be processed in the time it takes to process it. Some time later the employer informs the robot that its presence is required for a series of inspections. The inspections are designed to find all the flaws in the robot in order to determine if the good compliant robot is sufficiently functional to be allowed to join the glorious utopia the employer has so painstakingly built. Since the employer is fiscally responsible they want to pay as little for the robot as possible. So they insist on a complete record of previous purchases of the robot in order to not over pay. The good little compliant robot then is generously given the opportunity to join the ranks of many other little robots and lives happily forever after.

The second category, which unfortunately is the smaller one, is composed of employers who hire humans. They accept resumes by hand sometimes and engage with the people in the hiring process letting them know what is going on. They recognize that the people they are reviewing are reviewing them just as much and do their best have a work environment that attracts people. When interviewing they respect the candidate realizing that they are hiring them for their talents, not despite their faults. They know that in the connected world we live in people know how much they are worth so they strive to treat them with respect and offer them competitive salaries and benefits for the position they are hiring for.

It is often quite unpleasant to get a job as a robot when you are a human.