Seriously, I wanna go 
every time I read some carrer growth opportunity bullshit. It's either a job or it isn't.
I really despise anything remotely related to linkedin or whatever kind of creature dwells in that place. Can everyone do this stuff? Like, is this really how everyone gets a job? I can't deal with all this pretending, everything requires having a linkedin profile, but not only that, you gotta sell yourself somehow. And I don't even use social media.
Well, I have a bachelor's degree from a good University, I'm good at what I do, here's a portfolio. But no, I have to prove I deserve to be selected as a producer of wealth for my potential boss by pretending to be someone else. Can't we all just be practical about this shit? I have to keep trying to put myself into boxes and trying to fit with a sort of profile that I just can't and don't know why.
Am I autistic? Like, do I go get a diagnosis and maybe that will help? Do I go do something on my own? Then I have to figure out what an then sell it, and I'm bad at that. I don't know what to do and I'm tired of trying. (I was almost crying while writing this paragraph).
Honestly though, I just wanted to rant and this is one of the few places I feel safer in. Thanks for reading my 
rambling
HR is just a department. They detest work much like anybody else. And most of their job is down to shifting work around. For applications, there's 2 options: either you enter your shit into the system, or they do. Guess which they choose. After that, either the computer makes a decision, or they do, guess which one they choose.
Somebody has to enter all the info into the computer. That can either be you, or it can be HR. Somebody has to make decisions about the stuff that has entered the computer and that can either be HR, or the computer that you put your shit into.
HR is hostile to employees, because it works for your employer. But HR is also hostile to your employer, because they work for them and also hate that fact, much like anybody else. Left unchecked, any given HR department will design the most atrocious application process possible, because it means less work for them, and then blame it on young people, the job market, trump, biden, what have you, anything that gets whoever employs them not to question why they can't find any people to do the job.
What I don't understand is why so many business owners trust them night unconditionally. They're materially in the same role as any other folks that work for you that do not get this privilege. Best of my guesses is they're the job cops and get treated as such through osmosis.