Job Recommendation Engines: Low- to No-Tech and Not Getting Better

Many recruiters are poorly trained. They choose -- or are asked to -- identify potential candidates based on slight domain knowledge, and that's putting it kindly. Meanwhile, employers have (despite press to the contrary still enjoy a buyer's market) moved to an era of increased specialization. To address this, or possibly to cut recruiters out of the process altogether, some recruiters have increased their use of job matching algorithms. On the job description side, available data is not canonical and metadata nonstandard -- and not getting better.