What in the Hunger Games is Happening with Recruitment? A short history of recruiting in tech

About the session

Why haven’t job descriptions evolved since 1890? Why do interviews feel like exams for jobs no one actually does? And who decided that the ideal interview environment should be... terrified?

From Thomas Edison’s invention of the tech interview to the legacy of Industrial Revolution-era job specs, this talk takes a wry look at how hiring became so broken, and why it stays that way.

Whether you’re hiring, job hunting, or just wondering if it’s you (spoiler: it’s probably not), Suzi Edwards-Alexander will walk you through:

• how we ended up with recruitment processes that serve no one
• why AI might not be the worst thing to happen to hiring
• Three practical changes you can make now to hire better, interview better, or simply survive the job search with your confidence intact.

Expect insight, irreverence, and at least one call to smash the status quo.