How to fix recruitment: Hit Reply

> Keep the dialogue open between recruiters and developers.

The problem is that recruiters are too dumb to (try to) understand the field they recruit for and too dumb to listen. The former results in meaningless buzzwords spaghetti in offers and completely mismatched offers only based on trivial keyword matching (e.g. as a seasoned Linux admin/sysprog I get offers for Active Directory admins with RHEL as a "nice to have" point, but I matched "sysadmin" and "linux", so I must be a fit). The latter is a conclusion from my own clear description how and with what information to contact with me -- I constantly get notifications that go against that, despite that I ensured it's public and prominent.

> [...] if we don’t act to fix what we think is broken while we have the ability to, we’re part of the problem [...]

This assumes we have the ability. We don't, because the other side doesn't listen for some reason.