Originally posted by ZoomZoom Diva:
Someone like sigma getting to go through the resumes is even not assured in many companies. They cut out the first swath of applicants electronically before a human even gets to make determinations. Again, it's not ideal, but it's frequently the only feasible way for companies to wade through the pile of potentially thousands of applicants.



They do that at my company as well.

Usually about half will be cut by a computer, usually just a keyword type search. Another half will be cut by HR on initial interviews. So about 25% get to me and I'll take about 1 in 5 of those, so about 5% of the total pool gets to an interview. To my knowledge, none of those cuts are based on the education as long as it meets the minimum length requirements. And, actually, a larger-than-you'd-think percentage of those I choose to interview don't make it through background checks. Usually education-related stuff -- saying they have a degree when they don't or are actually just really close. Every position as at least 1 guy that can't get through a simple background check. And this isn't security stuff, we're just checking to make sure what they said matches reality.

Now, I can request that certain schools be filtered out. You wanna talk about unfair. Some people are so tired of "bad" hires from certain schools that they simply refuse to look at the schools those new hires came from. You can be discriminated against purely because your school had some bad graduates that my company happened to hire and quickly got rid of when they found they couldn't deliver.

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