Exploitation In The Hiring Process

Having to submit work history in individual units in addition to submitting one's resume, the document that would already detail that very work history, is but one of many ways that, by intentional irrationality or by a more passive philosophical incompetence, the hiring process of some companies is artificially prolonged or difficult.  Such things in no way make receiving applications or conducting interviews more easy for anyone on either side of the process.  No, they are there because those in charge of hiring do not have the rationality to recognize them for what they are (or to care) or, even worse, they might be irrational and apathetic towards how they treat general applicants, hoping to find people desperate or compliant enough that they will endure all of this obliviously or knowingly.  Requiring that people provide their full work history more than once, when a digital resume already addresses this information, is not even the worst that could be done here.

Asinine practices like having multiple gratuitous rounds of interviews (I have heard of scenarios with up to seven, though there is always the possibility of having one more if interviewees will put up with it) are in place to glorify pathetic traditions or to pressure interviewees anxious or frustrated enough to accept offers that might be subpar.  These processes are especially wasteful of time and effort on everyone's part if there is already an internal candidate selected for the role and all external interviews are an illusionary formality.  However many people apply in such cases are putting their time into these interviews uncompensated, in all likelihood, though they have devoted effort for the sake a company as if they were already hired, in a sense.  Even worse than this is the possibility of a company having a candidate complete an uncompensated task to "test" them, only so that the organization can use their method or results for themselves without hiring someone.

Then there is the fact that if someone can do the job adequately, but derives no grand pleasure from the role, some employers would reject them for this alone.  Only if there is an equally talented or more skilled applicant/choice who also has passion for their field would dismissing someone for lack of passion be valid.  A lack of excitement, after all, is not a lack of skill or willingness.  Passion will only be exploited by some employers or managers anyway, another thing they can rely on to keep certain workers enthralled with their job despite a rotten company culture, inequivalent pay, and few opportunities for advancement.  Even with passion, some employers might only want enough passion for the desire to be emotionalistically blind, a shallow motivation to be harnessed by a shallow organization.

People without passion could not deserve to die for it, as passion is a subjective thing that does not necessarily reflect a person's worldview, core intentions, and competencies.  A specific kind of employer really is treating people like this is the case.  If no one hired someone who is honest enough to say that they have no incredible personal attachment to their professional life beyond the money and security it brings, those people would starve or die of dehydration unless they were freely able to live directly off of the natural world--a difficult thing for ordinary workers in countries like America.  The idea that people should long to devote their lives to professions is itself folly unless the profession is something morally valuable in itself; it is only something that is assumed by irrationalists and, more significantly, it contradicts reason since only philosophical truths could be worth living for, not careers or money or social recognition.

Why does almost anyone want to professionally work?  They want to get paid so they can easily pay for shelter, food, water, clothing, entertainment, and so on.  There is absolutely nothing other than subjective preference that would motivate a person to work beyond this.  It is not irrational or otherwise sinful to enjoy or look forward to professional opportunities, and there could be deep passion choosing behind certain jobs, but passion and skill are ultimately secondary to the real reason why jobs as a whole are created at all.  Some people need tasks completed, and some people are willing to do them in exchange for compensation of some kind in order to survive or fortify their life security; these are the driving factors behind most work.  Rationality and righteousness are the only additional things besides skill or willingness that by necessity matter in the interview process, and they are what will often be ignored in favor of idiotic cliques, superficial words, and connections with reveres figures.