[AussieWog93]

Was talking to an Uber driver about this, funnily enough.

Apparently it's very common for applicants to just spam their resume out to every employer, since there's no cost to do so.

If it were standard practice to implement some kind of hurdle, so that the applicant would have to spend an hour of their time to get a resume in front of a human, then there would be a lot less resumes to sift through and therefore a lot more time that could be given to each one by the employer.

Another commenter mentioned having to drop off resumes in person, but I suspect something as simple as this could have a huge impact on spam.

[ghaff]

This applies to other things as well.

I was involved in one phase of picking submittals for a conference recently and there were no small number of submittals where basically one person sent in a half-dozen or more generic submissions, possibly with a sentence tacked on to make it relevant to this specific conference.

I'm a big fan of conferences limiting the number of submittals or at least throwing enough hoops in the way of shotgunning a bunch of generic proposals to discourage the practice.

(Basically, more submittals mean that the conference committee is going to end up being more random evaluating submittals against each other.)

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> If it were standard practice to implement some kind of hurdle, so that the applicant would have to spend an hour of their time to get a resume in front of a human, then there would be a lot less resumes to sift through and therefore a lot more time that could be given to each one by the employer.

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