What in the Hunger Games is Happening with Recruitment?

Explore the broken state of modern recruitment practices in this 50-minute conference talk that traces the historical origins of today's dysfunctional hiring processes. Discover why job descriptions haven't evolved since 1890, why interviews resemble exams for jobs that don't actually exist, and who decided that creating a terrified interview environment was ideal. Learn about Thomas Edison's invention of the tech interview and how Industrial Revolution-era job specifications continue to plague modern hiring. Examine why recruitment processes serve no one effectively, understand why AI might not be the worst development in hiring (with LinkedIn taking that distinction), and gain three practical changes you can implement immediately to improve hiring practices, interview better, or simply survive job searches with confidence intact. Expect insights delivered with irreverence and at least one call to challenge the status quo of recruitment practices.