Examples include hospitals that look for references to computer science in the CVs of candidates for a nursing or data entry job, and retail stores that reject people who apply for a store clerk position but don't list "floor-buffing" as one of their skills

They link this article but paywall :(

making cv like seo scam site

  • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Years ago on the old subreddit, someone wrote an effort post about how the US has a job lottery system, they just won’t admit it.

    The drive of their argument was algorithms like these: ones that auto-reject many candidates for trivial reasons, make it much harder to find work. It was a fantastic post that went into how the techbro assholes sold their shitty systems to employers.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Bullshit Jobs touches on this in a broader context, these tech solutions to problems of our own making and all the wasted labor that goes into them.