How would you improve the recruitment process?

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If you could.

- I'd make it so that companies are required to at the very least reject you after an interview. Silence is just rude but it's becoming very common. I know companies don't want to be pestered for feedback, since someone might not take it well, but hearing nothing at all is annoying.

- Design or general IT projects such as PowerPoints should be paid if over fifteen minutes worth of work. A significant amount of places pretend there's a job opening when really they just want free work.

- I'd make it so that recruiters are required to specify the client they are representing and where exactly the position is based. It's not good enough to say 'Our client based in the general area'. I know certain recruitment places do this so you can't go directly to the company, but I can't tell you if I'm interested or not if I don't know if I can commute. Also, there's a possibility that I may have already applied to the same job elsewhere if you won't tell me the client.

- No surprise phone interviews! They are now banned.

1. Slash the government quotas of job applications required to be sent by the unemployed to maintain their benefits, so that employers have more confidence that applicants genuinely want the job.

2. Make it illegal to screen applications using software or AI.

3. Provide options such as in-person or online interview and provide questions in advance.

4. The organisation to develop a set of objective criteria for judging a candidate, including a scoring system to be kept on record for transparency of recruitment decision-making. Prefereably interview by at least two people who score independently, to avoid subjective bias.

5. Job ads must state the actual and specific requirements of the job, not catch-all phrases like "great communicator" and "must be a team player".

I would like companies to be encouraged to work with employment assistance programs like voc rehab so disabled people could be considered for jobs first assuming of coarse the disabled meet the job requirements & are capable of performing the job. The companies would notify employment programs about job openings & the programs would then inform their clients about the jobs. If the clients are interested they would fill out an app & the employment program tells the companies to review the clients apps. The companies could be given slight tax incentives for hiring disabled people.

I would ban at-will employment