The Hiring Process

I'm working with three high level, long career, professional people who are job hunting right now. The horror stories are incredible. With Internet submission of résumés, people infrequently get even any recognition that materials have been submitted; after discussing skill sets and expertise, employers will rarely illuminate for the candidate a "range" of what the expected salary might be; and then there are the formulaic questions repeated to each candidate, creating no opportunity to share information about actual skills, only skills of self-promotion.

And then there's the other side of the coin generation X -who has interests in and needs from their future employer that are very different from the needs expressed and sought by the previous employee generation.

Here is an interesting article discussing the message to then organizations and when it has a not very illuminating and perhaps even in net hiring process: http://www.governing.com/articles/10kmiller.htm