Manager submits their own resume for a job opening to highlight a major flaw in HR systems

Technology has streamlined several procedures within the corporate world but there are also quite a few downsides to the same. Completely relying on it can lead to multiple unnecessary hassles. One such thing came to light when a person, u/RazDoStuff, posted about receiving a rejection letter in a record time of 0.02 seconds and a manager, u/BoredDevBo, shared why they hate auto-rejection systems because of a particular incident.

The person had applied for a software engineer role at a firm. The application was sent for review at 10:56 a.m. and at 10:56 a.m. itself, the person received an update on their application. The response read, "After careful consideration, we unfortunately will not be moving forward with your application." A manager took to the comments to share an incident with auto-rejection systems. "Auto rejection systems from HR make me angry. I'm a tech lead and for three months HR wasn't able to find a single person for the position we were looking for. I created a new email for myself and sent them a modified version of my CV with a fake name to see what was going on with the process and guess what, I got auto-rejected," the person remarked.

"HR didn't even look at my CV. I took this up to management and they fired half of the HR department in the following weeks, the issue was they were looking for an angular JS developer while we were looking for an Angular one (different frameworks, similar names)," the person pointed out. "These kinds of silly mistakes must and can be fixed in minutes, and since the CVs were auto-rejecting profiles without angular JS in them. We lost all possible candidates. The truly infuriating part was that I consistently talked to them asking for progress and they always told me that they had some candidates that didn't pass the first screening processes (which was false)."

The person who posted the thread replied, "It’s so annoying. I’m more annoyed about the fact I took 10 minutes trying to fill out each 'tell about a time' entry field, only to get auto-rejected .02 seconds later. They also left the 'After careful consideration' part in. Ridiculous." People took to the comments section to share their own experiences. u/ZombieSurvivor365 commented, "You can say that again. I remember working on my resume for a couple of hours and I got so depressed when I realized that recruiters and HR only skim my resume. My resume contains the entirety of my life’s worth and achievements and you mean to tell me that they only skimmed it?"

u/incognitoshadow wrote, "I'll do you one better. In my junior year of college, my roommate was applying for internships. He got a rejection email 20 seconds before he received the application email, lol." u/Ambitious_Prune_6011 remarked, "It isn't a rejection, they weren't taking in more applications when you submitted. They just haven't taken the link down yet. Happened a few times when I was applying last year." u/Significant_Soup2558 shared, "Application Tracking Systems (ATS) have true/false questions that will auto reject resumes based on some answers. For example, Remote vs On-site. That's one possible explanation for this. Not that it's not annoying."