I recently had a new idea, inspired by an Ask A Manager column and my own job-hunting experience:
New rule: if you reject someone because you think they're going to leave for a better job, you have to tell them where to find this better job.
— "Impudent Strumpet!" (@ImpStrump) August 4, 2021
Today, my shower gave me an improvement on this idea: a "people who left this job went to work at..." website, or perhaps a LinkedIn functionality.
Scraping LinkedIn data (and other data if other useful sources are available), track which employers people went to after leaving a previous job, and look for patterns.
For example, if many people left Acme Inc. to work for Roarke Industries, and a comparable number left Roarke Industries to work for Acme Inc., that tells one story. If many people left Acme Inc. to work for Roarke Industries but there was no pattern of traffic in the other direction, that tells another story.
People can use this information to find better jobs and find employers who are likely to hire them based on their previous experience. Conversely, they might also be able to use it to plan their career path - for example, if Roarke Industries requires 5 years of experience and a lot of people go from university to Acme Inc. to Roarke Industries, then Acme Inc. might be the place to get the experience you need to be hired by Roarke Industries.
1 comment:
This seems more like your "new rules" featurette than the "things they should invent" one.
This should apply to rejecting people for being "overqualified," too. Or maybe the rule for that should be that a place where a degree doesn't open doors (experience required, schoolwork doesn't count) has to be a place where a degree doesn't close doors either (you'd be too bored with this job).
I have an admitted bias against business culture because I perceive it as being biased against "intellectuals." One of those bias loops, I guess.
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