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I had just assumed that if someone was sending out 200 applications, it was pretty much the same resume going to all of them (no catering it to the individual i
by nocman 4y ago
I had just assumed that if someone was sending out 200 applications, it was pretty much the same resume going to all of them (no catering it to the individual interests of the employer) - with perhaps some exceptions to jobs the applicant was particularly interested in.
I can't imagine sending out that many having spent large quantities of time on each one.
[edited to fix typing the wrong word]
- ghaff 4y agoI would assume so as well although that may be the problem. Though I'm also open to the possibility that some companies just want to hire some number of developers with 3-5 years of experience in $TECHNOLOGY and aren't too fussy beyond that. In which case, it may indeed become more of a numbers game if a company is basically picking a handful of resumes at random that clear some minimum bar.
- anon50118810 4y agoOP here. When I think of an employer as desperate to hire, I think of it in the same way that I'm desperate to get more milk when I'm out of milk. I go to the store with milk on my mind, I pick from the few on offer, buy it and take it home. I don't need to taste test or anything like that. Of course everyone wants to be a premium brand but sometimes it just doesn't work out like that. A challenge is that most job listings are mostly "3-5 years of experience in $TECHNOLOGY," or rather there are so many $TECHNOLOGIES listed that almost no one is going to be an expert in all of them. It's difficult to tell from the outside whether they want someone who has experience in at least some of the core and can learn the rest, or whether they're holding out for the perfect candidate.