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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MaxKaladin" data-source="post: 2527354" data-attributes="member: 1196">Oh good grief, don't get me started on the whole hiring process.  It seems tailor made to ensure one of the schmoozers will get the job no matter how qualified (or not) they are while folks like me (who aren't any good at the people games but who happen to be really good at our work) get shut out again and again.   It feels like a bleeping high school popularity contest all over again.  In my field, IT, I think much of the problem is that so many of the people doing the hiring don't know enough about the job and the technology to ask many meaningful technical questions so they fall back on the social stuff and stuff like that to screen candidates before they decide which resumes to forward on to someone who can actually do a technical interview.  What's funny is I don't have any trouble getting along with my co-workers and everyone I've worked for has loved my work.  I do great IF I can get past the bleeping HR people and actually get a job.</blockquote>