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Yeah there are important selection effects at work. You nailed one but I think you missed another. Five minutes is the completion time for those that did comple
by im3w1l 4y ago
Yeah there are important selection effects at work. You nailed one but I think you missed another. Five minutes is the completion time for those that did complete it. The people who abandoned the application might have done so because they realized it would have taken hours or even days to dig up the relevant information for the required fields.
The people who can complete it in five minutes are those that have all the information at their fingertips, because they already applied to tens or hundreds of other jobs. The person who has worked for your competitor for 15 years, and is considering making one single application to you will have to do more work.
- happyopossum 4y ago> The person who has worked for your competitor for 15 years, and is considering making one single application to you will have to do more work. I think you're gonna have to support that assumption a bit more - job apps (especially ones that can be done in 5 minutes) don't ask for a bunch of data that isn't generally at your fingertips, and your example would make the process even easier - 1 job in 15 years is easy to remember and faster to type than 8 jobs in the same timeframe.
- im3w1l 4y ago"Start date.. Hmm I think it was 15 years ago.. Or was it 14? Let's see, I finished university year N, and then I worked at X for 5 years... I think? Maybe I can check my bank statements... they go back 3 years online, and 10 years if you ask them nicely.. maybe I have an old diary in some box in the attic? Well it's late now, I'll remember to check when I clean it up next month"