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Tech companies face a fresh crisis: Hiring
- Mountain_Skies 5y ago>candidates hold all the power. No. As long as tech companies would rather pass up a hundred good workers to avoid hiring one bad worker, the problem will continue to be strictly the fault of the companies and not of the labor market. Get over your addiction to text matching resumes, exact point release matches, and demanding experience greater than the tech has existed. Just a few weeks ago I saw a job posting that required more Android experience than possible unless you were a member of the original development team. Staffing woes for tech companies is 100% the fault of tech company hiring practices. But since they have Congress on a leash, they'll call them up and demand some more government policies to further manipulate the labor market instead of changing their own practices. If you "absolutely can't find anyone qualified anywhere at any price" either your qualifications are impossible or you're being disingenuous. The labor is there, you just have to stop rejecting it due your fear of ever making a hiring mistake. A lot of those "mistakes" can be converted into wins given a bit of effort. And the true mistakes can be handled appropriately like every other industry in the world does. Tech isn't some unique unicorn that cannot afford to make a hiring mistake here and there.
- quantified 5y agoIf I have a job that seems fine, and a recruiter I’ve never met contacts me about some job that seems no better, or clearly worse, why would I respond (if I do) with anything more than the canned reply of no interest? Anyone else here feel like interviewing every time a recruitment pitch comes in?