[burnt-resistor]

Reasons include:

- Racial, gender, and/or local citizen discrimination avoidance

- Job security for HR so they themselves don't get laid off

- Over-interview to exceed capacity/ERP needs

- Market and/or competition intelligence

Perhaps it behooves jobseekers to stop looking for scant, temporary, insecure, disloyal, abusive work and create or sell goods or services through collective, employee-owned co-ops instead.

[throwawayq3423]

> Job security for HR so they themselves don't get laid off

I never thought of that, the entire HR industry needs to make it look like hiring still exists. What a dark circle.