Ask the Headhunter: Why America's Employment System is So Broken

The job board model of hiring symbolizes the employment system's greater problems. Photo by Bubaone/iStock Vendors via Getty Images.

pbs.org - by Nick Corcodilos - August 27, 2013

A recent column, "Is LinkedIn Cheating Employers and Job Seekers Alike?", triggered good dialogue on this blog and in lots of other media outlets about how companies recruit and hire people. Job seekers rightly criticized middlemen like LinkedIn, CareerBuilder and other database-driven job boards for mindless automation that does virtually nothing to help make good matches between employers and job seekers. In fact, the statistics I presented in the article strongly suggest these middlemen make it harder.

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