{"id":563,"date":"2007-01-10T08:48:40","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T14:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/mechanistic-vs-humanistic\/"},"modified":"2007-01-10T08:48:32","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T14:48:32","slug":"mechanistic-vs-humanistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/mechanistic-vs-humanistic\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanistic vs. Humanistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s keep this ad riff going. From another sales ad (I removed the city name from the ad):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>About this Career Opportunity:<\/strong><br \/>\nWe are currently seeking an experienced Sales Professional to work at our showroom store location in the <strong>TH-CitySSP<\/strong> to help accelerate our growth further!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A large company posted this ad and they serve the B2C (business-to-consumer) market. I am guessing from the frequency of their ads that they have consistently high turnover.<\/p>\n<p>However, when I read such obvious boilerplate ads, I get the impression that this company&#8217;s culture is mechanistic. Might not be fair, but impressions are the subjective interpretation of the person. The poorly-spaced, strangely-coded city field immediately makes me think they are sourcing often and everywhere. Had they taken the time to check the formatting of their ad, I would probably assume they have a people orientation to their culture (the rest of the ad is well-written).<\/p>\n<p>I realize their are applicant tracking systems and tools for handling responses, but I would not recommend technological automation at the expense of human impression. Check your ads and read them as if you were a candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s keep this ad riff going. From another sales ad (I removed the city name from the ad): About this Career Opportunity: We are currently seeking an experienced Sales Professional to work at our showroom store location in the TH-CitySSP to help accelerate our growth further! A large company posted this ad and they serve the B2C (business-to-consumer) market. I am guessing from the frequency of their ads that they have consistently high turnover. However, when I read such obvious boilerplate ads, I get the impression that this company&#8217;s culture is mechanistic. Might not be fair, but impressions are the subjective interpretation of the person. The poorly-spaced, strangely-coded city field&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/mechanistic-vs-humanistic\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,26,15],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-95","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->