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As a hiring manager having to slog through resumes of people who pretend to be programmers, it never ceases to amaze me how few applicants understand something
by teilo 9y ago
As a hiring manager having to slog through resumes of people who pretend to be programmers, it never ceases to amaze me how few applicants understand something so basic as having the skills and experience that a position requires, before applying.
- uoaei 9y agoI see your point about basic programming skill and exposure, but it also doesn't help that often the requirements are inflated somewhat to attract better talent and keep the chaff out. Job seekers learn to discount some of the prerequisites for this reason.
- fapjacks 9y agoBut this guy had zero experience before applying for the job. If someone tells you they have "limited" experience programming, then they do not have any experience programming. I know people that do this and it's just stupid. "Hey, I did all the exercises on Codecademy, I want to get a job doing this!" is what he means by "limited" experience programming.
- kafkaesq 9y agoIt cuts both ways. A lot of position writeups clearly have way too many bullet points (with arbitrary numbers of years of experience required in each - as if years of experience in X actually means anything), often in trivially learnable and/or transferable skill areas; or are just plain ungrammatical or otherwise incoherent. And then these places wonder why months and months go by with very few people applying.
- CM30 9y agoOr worse, they expect people to be good at multiple unrelated job fields at the same time. No, you're not likely to find a web developer who's also fantastic at graphics design, marketing/SEO, technical support, writing and sales. Especially not if you offer near minimum wage for the work. In cases like that, they're either after an extremely rare unicorn that will fix their business overnight or not actually that reliant on someone with all those skills and hoping some magical unicorn will apply none the less.