"Candidate experience" is a buzzword. Being real with people is not.

Let's start being more real about how this could work effectively.

I want to give The Rock Bottom to people when they discuss "candidate experience." Little secret here: that's a buzzword. It means nothing. Well, OK, it means something. What it means is this: a HR/talent acquisition department has a bunch of boxes to check, potentially via a software suite that's probably largely automated (hence not even human), and t…