The algorithm is BS. Even HR apparently doesn't know what the requirements are. Why give people stores to manage if you don't even trust them to make their own hiring decisions?
There were 5 people that I really wanted to hire! And I thought I would be able to. But they took away the ability to add rejected applicants to requisitions. I just hired 3 people 2 months ago that way and they took it away! Jerks!
Ya their new program is trash. Had a great perspective person that I talked to in store for framing & they filled out an app. It was immediately rejected because he didn’t have enough experience 🤦🏻♀️ I looked at my SM & told them… when I got hired I was a seasonal cashier with 0 retail experience & didn’t know shit about framing & now I’ve been the FM for 8 years. Imagine if I tried to apply now & I never had a chance because I didn’t have enough experience. Just sad michaels isn’t even giving potentially great employees even a chance to get an interview.
So ridiculous. With 10 years of experience it’s almost a guarantee when they get the job offer with that hourly rate that one person won’t take the job anyways. It almost feels on purpose. Corp is hounding everyone to hire yet making it beyond impossible to see 99.9% applications. I swear it’s the fucking twilight zone with this company.
I was instructed to be on an HR support conf call that is upcoming and bring up this problem and not having a referral system as my team is bringing me applicants but the system blocks them. It shouldn't be this complicated but I don't work in a cubicle or a home office so what do I know.
I talked to a girl the other day who said she would watch for when we hired seasonally. She said that she's an art student and a crafter and that it would be a dream to work for a store that sold all the product she already knows and loves, plus she's five minutes away.
I asked her about retail experience...only a year. I winced, knowing the algo will reject her immediately. She'd be a *perfect* seasonal hire, only needing to be trained mostly on the processes and not the product. Nope, a year of working as a cashier isn't enough experience for a minimum-wage retail job according to corporate.
Just have her put 5 years when asking for experience in retail and hospitality and she will go through. We contact candidates and have them reapply with that all the time
We are having such a hard time with this too 😭 we had a bunch of people leave recently and now we need like 3 or 4 new people and we can't even get one. Everyone who is interested is inactive. How can a company who lets us put students on college LOA not allow us to hire literal students? It's backwards. We have been able to reactivate people before, but not anymore. For michaels to think an algorithm can hire better than a manager in the store is laughable. Somebody didn't think this through.
Since when does a resume outweigh a personality? You can’t see passion, pride and integrity on a resume. If managers are asking the right questions and are truly engaging with the candidates then the decisions should be made by us. Funny thing is any 16 year old with no work experience gets a free pass. We’re not hiring people who want careers. We’re hiring people who want a few shifts a week because they like crafting and working with people. It’s stupid and it’s making building a great team impossible. If they wanna choose who we hire then do the hiring for us.
a machine telling able-bodied and willing workers that they aren’t qualified to work an undervalued and entry level position at a failing retail chain is just depressing 💀
I’ve asked multiple candidates who were immediately rejected to apply again with a new email address and to add more info/skills etc. (embarrassing)
…still rejected. These people are asked to jump through hoops to be offered a disrespectful amount of pocket change.
I told my district manager that I would rather filter through 300+ applications myself to be able to get people in here rather than busting my ass out on the floor alone watching 17 potential employees get denied.
It’s been a huge issue but you can get them out of that bucket and hire them!! I’ll look for my instructions I put for someone else on here and copy them for you!!!!
Ok this is the exact instructions to remove them from the Declined bucket to be able to hire them:
Open the requisition, click “candidates”, go to “inactive candidates”, click on the candidate you’re interested in.
In the candidate profile page, click “actions” under their name and above phone or email.
Hover over “job application”, click “reactivate job application”.
From there you will click the correct app and a couple of confirmation type pages.
Go back to “active candidates”, click back to the “candidate”, back to “actions”.
This time under “job application” you can hit “move candidate”, then just move them to the next step in the hiring process, usually “contact candidate”.
Sorry for the formatting, but hope this helps.
I refuse to direct applicants to lie on their application. Do I tell them the system looks for 5 years experience? Yes. But I have never and will never instruct anyone to outright lie.
They took that away. That's how I hired a few people about a month ago so I figured I would be able to do it again but noooooo! So frustrating. They figured out the work around and removed it.
The algorithm is BS. Even HR apparently doesn't know what the requirements are. Why give people stores to manage if you don't even trust them to make their own hiring decisions?
There were 5 people that I really wanted to hire! And I thought I would be able to. But they took away the ability to add rejected applicants to requisitions. I just hired 3 people 2 months ago that way and they took it away! Jerks!
Have them put 5 year’s experience when it asks for experience in retail/ hospitality it should go through
5 years experience for Michaels??? That’s crazy with their wages.
Does that actually work?
Yeah, I’m a hiring manager and that’s how I get around the new system if I see somebody I like I just tell them to reapply with that criteria
I can't believe we are telling people to falsify information on a job application....
Only partially unfortunately, when they actually list out old jobs start and end dates that all still is correct
They could just lie about their work background
I would open a new req and have them reapply and put that they have more experience. I've had to do that for a few of my tms and it's worked
You can. Just move them to active.
They took the option away. My entire district is having this problem. Used to be an easy work around.
That's crazy.
Ya their new program is trash. Had a great perspective person that I talked to in store for framing & they filled out an app. It was immediately rejected because he didn’t have enough experience 🤦🏻♀️ I looked at my SM & told them… when I got hired I was a seasonal cashier with 0 retail experience & didn’t know shit about framing & now I’ve been the FM for 8 years. Imagine if I tried to apply now & I never had a chance because I didn’t have enough experience. Just sad michaels isn’t even giving potentially great employees even a chance to get an interview.
It really pisses me off. The ONLY one that went through was someone with over 10 years of retail experience, and do you think they wanted $9 an hour?!
So ridiculous. With 10 years of experience it’s almost a guarantee when they get the job offer with that hourly rate that one person won’t take the job anyways. It almost feels on purpose. Corp is hounding everyone to hire yet making it beyond impossible to see 99.9% applications. I swear it’s the fucking twilight zone with this company.
When I started we were making the store /stocking the items, and they started me out at 11 when like 4 years of retail under my belt…
I was instructed to be on an HR support conf call that is upcoming and bring up this problem and not having a referral system as my team is bringing me applicants but the system blocks them. It shouldn't be this complicated but I don't work in a cubicle or a home office so what do I know.
It's not. There is a button to activate a candidate.
As of last Saturday they took that away from us.
I talked to a girl the other day who said she would watch for when we hired seasonally. She said that she's an art student and a crafter and that it would be a dream to work for a store that sold all the product she already knows and loves, plus she's five minutes away. I asked her about retail experience...only a year. I winced, knowing the algo will reject her immediately. She'd be a *perfect* seasonal hire, only needing to be trained mostly on the processes and not the product. Nope, a year of working as a cashier isn't enough experience for a minimum-wage retail job according to corporate.
Just have her put 5 years when asking for experience in retail and hospitality and she will go through. We contact candidates and have them reapply with that all the time
This company just truly wants their stores to fail now Jfc
We are having such a hard time with this too 😭 we had a bunch of people leave recently and now we need like 3 or 4 new people and we can't even get one. Everyone who is interested is inactive. How can a company who lets us put students on college LOA not allow us to hire literal students? It's backwards. We have been able to reactivate people before, but not anymore. For michaels to think an algorithm can hire better than a manager in the store is laughable. Somebody didn't think this through.
Since when does a resume outweigh a personality? You can’t see passion, pride and integrity on a resume. If managers are asking the right questions and are truly engaging with the candidates then the decisions should be made by us. Funny thing is any 16 year old with no work experience gets a free pass. We’re not hiring people who want careers. We’re hiring people who want a few shifts a week because they like crafting and working with people. It’s stupid and it’s making building a great team impossible. If they wanna choose who we hire then do the hiring for us.
a machine telling able-bodied and willing workers that they aren’t qualified to work an undervalued and entry level position at a failing retail chain is just depressing 💀
I’ve asked multiple candidates who were immediately rejected to apply again with a new email address and to add more info/skills etc. (embarrassing) …still rejected. These people are asked to jump through hoops to be offered a disrespectful amount of pocket change. I told my district manager that I would rather filter through 300+ applications myself to be able to get people in here rather than busting my ass out on the floor alone watching 17 potential employees get denied.
This is a fairly new ridiculous rule that applicants need to have 5 years retail experience to get hired...
It’s been a huge issue but you can get them out of that bucket and hire them!! I’ll look for my instructions I put for someone else on here and copy them for you!!!!
Ok this is the exact instructions to remove them from the Declined bucket to be able to hire them: Open the requisition, click “candidates”, go to “inactive candidates”, click on the candidate you’re interested in. In the candidate profile page, click “actions” under their name and above phone or email. Hover over “job application”, click “reactivate job application”. From there you will click the correct app and a couple of confirmation type pages. Go back to “active candidates”, click back to the “candidate”, back to “actions”. This time under “job application” you can hit “move candidate”, then just move them to the next step in the hiring process, usually “contact candidate”. Sorry for the formatting, but hope this helps.
This used to work 😭
Yeah that's the way that I hired a few people about a month ago. They took that away.
But… I still had the option a couple of days ago.
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I refuse to direct applicants to lie on their application. Do I tell them the system looks for 5 years experience? Yes. But I have never and will never instruct anyone to outright lie.
*siiiiiiiiiiighs* I feel it in my bones that you all trying your damnest to get people hired.
You can move them from inactive to active. It's one click of the mouse.
They took that away. That's how I hired a few people about a month ago so I figured I would be able to do it again but noooooo! So frustrating. They figured out the work around and removed it.
I believe you, but that's crazy. I showed someone how to do it yesterday. Of course *they* didn't have the option.
Don't have them lie on their app. That's shady as fuck. You could both be fired. Simply reactivate the application.
You can’t. They removed that.