I was going to bitch and gripe in great detail about what a mess Kelly makes of their employment process, but I really don't care anymore. The one I went to had a couple score forms for the prospective employee to fill out, several of which involved transcribing the job history from the resume, which they require the candidate to bring along, god knows why because the candidate is going to write it down several times anyway. There is a session of extensive skills testing on some horrendously antique electronica, and then more forms to fill out, some of which are actually insulting. I left. The details really don't matter, after all.
     There is a funny phenomenon in the professional world. I had noticed it before, but it was really spelled out by a friend of mine recently. It's something so counter-training, and yet so intuitive (and such a blessing), that I take it as further evidence of a god, and that is:
     The more bullshit there is involved in doing a thing, the less worth the effort the thing turns out to be.
     It's one of the fairest things in the world, that you can gauge by the bullshit factor of a process whether it is worth fooling with or not. For instance, in an example given by the friend, if you are thinking about joining a couple professional organizations, and you tell them to send you a membership package, and one sends you this gargantuan stack of forms, with things you have to send off to various agencies to verify your eligibility to be in said organization and so on, while the other one sends you one or two very low-impact forms, it will turn out later that all your best resources will originate with the second organization, and not the first. The best events, the best contacts, the most usefulness, will come from the one that was less hassle to get into.
     I think the reason for that is that strong, capable people are allergic to bullshit. They won't bother with it. Waste of time. The first organization turns those folks off, and then there isn't any energy there to do anything useful, because the folks who put up with massive bullshit generally don't have a lot of energy and initiative.
     That's my guess.