Creating Roadblocks to Sucess with Processes and Technology

Research has indicated that people becoming adults in the 21st century will change careers at least 12 times and jobs even more frequently.  In today's job markets, many organizations, Internet job boards, and headhunters rely on Internet-based search engines to scan resumes, sort through information, and prescreen job candidates from thousands of applicants.  Many of these organizations are creating roadblocks to success by the way they require job seekers to enter data into the systems they use for prescreening candidates. 

The University of Chicago's job profile process is looking for the last four jobs held--regardless of whether or not those jobs relate to the job posting they are trying to fill.  Many of the larger firms require a chronological resume and, potentially, a list of all previous employers to fill job openings using the technology adopted by the organization.

These same electronic screening software programs are not designed to make sense of functional resumes.  The University of Chicago and other organizations will have a hard time filling open positions when they trust the information generated by their own data collection systems.  These organizations place an over-reliance on outdated data collection and sorting systems that do not provide relevant information to decision-makers trying to fill these open positions.  Frequently positions remain open for months.