As job seekers, stop promoting this idea that employers always know best when it comes to using certain hiring techniques. This is why I went on that long tirade to explain how all of that are just myths and beliefs. Most employers have no idea what Personnel Selection actually entails.

I'm not promoting the idea that employers know best. I'm suffering in the reality that employers live within those myths and beliefs with no measure of backlash or consequence from the workforce, so their perceptions are reinforced by having all the power in the hiring process for people like me.

People have to stop perpetuating the notion that "screw over the applicants" is a sound hiring strategy, or that's just the way the hiring world works. It is, at best, a just-in-time tactics that employers fumble into their hiring process without much thought.

Some employees do end up being roped in to give interviews and evaluate candidates. If you become a part of the process, you have the power to ask questions and improve the process from within. Most of the time, I see interviewers believe that they're only responsible for "asking the right interview questions", when they have the responsibly to speak with the hiring manager and examine the hiring process holistically.

If you are the hiring manager or interviewer, don't think that you finally "see the other side". You're seeing the outcome, when no one in the company cares about hiring. You should then speak up, rather than succumbing to the same pressure and thinking there's no better way to conduct hiring than to repeat the same system that screwed you over when you were looking for a job.

Well, when I get a job that lets me do more than enter data into a screen, I'll get right on it. It doesn't sound like there is much to do until then.