In my experience HR managers tend to know about as much about the people they're hiring as they do the jobs they're hiring them for, which is to say, not very much at all.
I will freely admit, however, that hiring people is not an easy task because there is no effective test to determine whether or not a person is going to be a good employee. HR folks have to rely on proxies such as work history, school grades, etc to attempt to hedge their bets about a particular person's likelihood of being a good employee. The problem is because the applicant pool is so deep right now they can pick bad proxies and get away with it. An large applicant pool has plenty of people who meet just about any requirement they feel like making up.
Current employment status is an example of a bad proxy(right now) for reasons already clearly laid out in the thread. The main reason being: the job market right now is anything but business as usual.
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