Having slammed brakes on hiring, Google says it no longer needs quite so many recruiters Google has confirmed it is this week laying off a few hundred staff from its global recruitment team. With the internet giant hitting the brakes on hiring generally, its bosses have now decided they don't need quite as many recruiters as they currently have on the books, and thus it's time to let go a portion of them. We …
bard is shit. And from what I read about chatgpt, my gut feeling is they all serve the same brown stuff.
p.s. an interesting poser: since I know nothing about a given subject, I turn to an 'AI' chat-bot. Then I discover, in small or large steps, that's it's making up stuff. In all subjects, And it's impossible to find out which part of the information given by chatbot is made up, because if I knew, I wouldn't have asked the question(s) in the first place. Which brings me back to the question: If I know stuff I don't need to ask a bot, and if I don't know stuff, I can't verify which, if any, part of the information given, is true. So it's useless, because I always require _reliable_ information.
but then, presumably, billions of people crowdsourcing LLM content daily can't be wrong...
If anyone needs the heave-ho, shouldn't it be the people who added all these people to Google's wage bill without any clear indication that they might be needed?
Although I get the impression that Google would struggle to justify the majority of its staff if forced to identify the associated revenue.
You can train people to do almost any job. My guess would be that Google needs plenty of people to investigate sexual harassment and racial discrimination type claims. A fair number of skills for recruiting would probably transfer to that role. Or almost anything within HR. They could also probably transfer a lot of those skills to being a business analyst.
Hey! We got ourselves one of those business analysts and she's hilarious.
The first time I met her, she took me on a tour through our factory explaining all the efficiencies she had in mind and I totalled up the cost in my head. I got to about $750,000 when I lost count.
Anyway, by the time the quotes from suppliers had arrived and the boss had stopped laughing, she was already running a new "Centre of Excellence" in another part of the business so none of it happened.
From what I hear she's struggling to get people to accept her meeting invitations.
"they're continuing to automate filtering of applications"
They hardly need automation, considering the criteria that are applied by 'human' HR. I was recently turned down on sight of CV for a senior consultant role absolutely aligned with my two decades plus of professional practice by the agent for a newly founded consultancy, solely on the stated ground that I hadn't ever worked for one of the big four. Who employed me in the past was obviously much more important than what expertise I could bring to the table.
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