[NooneAtAll3]

> Very likely, waiting for you in line in front of the unemployment office, 10 years from now.

so nothing's changed?

> This basically kills any "cold job application". Now it's all back to references and nepotism. I've gotten almost all my past jobs by applying to a job I liked, someone figuring out my CV was decent and then passing interviews.

and my argument is that THERE WERE NO COLD APPLICATIONS

even you yourself say - you had to pass interviews. Everything is decided by the direct contact with the candidate

now everything will simply skip directly to that stage of skill checks, instead of playing cat-and-mouse game of phrasing, misphrasing and outright lies