Another Way To Manage The Flood Of Resumes: Throw Fairness Out The Window

Workforce magazine reports today that some companies are so overwhelmed by applications for their open positions—one company got 500 applications for one position in the first hour—that they’re reduced to narrowing their sourcing methods.

For instance, companies that would have gone to Monster.com to post a job are staying away from such “broad” networks and are aiming for, say, posting on the hiring manager’s alumni association board.

Some companies aren’t even posting the openings on their own web sites.

This is a huge issue for multiple reasons: one, says recruitment outsourcing firm Accolo, is that companies could be slapped with discrimination lawsuits by only looking at a tiny fraction of the true applicant pool.

Two,