Given the amount of money and resources that goes into recruiting and hiring, I find it hard to believe that the industry is not serious.
On the other hand, the current approaches clearly don't work very well, and everybody knows it, but nobody seems to be interested in seriously thinking about what we need to do differently. (patio11 and tptacek are notable exceptions)
So her best predictor of future job performance is number of typos on resume. That is my pet peeve when looking at resumes, but it really discriminates against people for whom English is not their native language. On the other hand, didn't have a lot of non native English speakers applying to the positions for which I was hiring back then.
On the other hand, the current approaches clearly don't work very well, and everybody knows it, but nobody seems to be interested in seriously thinking about what we need to do differently. (patio11 and tptacek are notable exceptions)