> Very likely, waiting for you in line in front of the unemployment office, 10 years from now.
so nothing's changed?
> This basically kills any "cold job application". Now it's all back to references and nepotism. I've gotten almost all my past jobs by applying to a job I liked, someone figuring out my CV was decent and then passing interviews.
and my argument is that THERE WERE NO COLD APPLICATIONS
even you yourself say - you had to pass interviews. Everything is decided by the direct contact with the candidate
now everything will simply skip directly to that stage of skill checks, instead of playing cat-and-mouse game of phrasing, misphrasing and outright lies
A cold application just means that the candidate applied directly with no referral or introduction. It’s always been the case that both warm and cold applications went though the same interview processes, maybe just with a different first conversation. The argument is that there’s no way to get to a first conversation without already knowing someone who can provide the warm introduction.