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There is a mindset amongst some of the worst sort of managers that "we only want the best people" and so they design hiring schemes or post jobs ads which over
by epo 15y ago
There is a mindset amongst some of the worst sort of managers that "we only want the best people" and so they design hiring schemes or post jobs ads which over specify their needs and/or are designed to stop lesser candidates wasting management time.
The end result is often that the best people just walk on by. Honesty in the hiring process cuts both ways.
- dpritchett 15y agoThis really depends on the cost structure of the work you're doing. If you're an IT body shop then you really do want middle-of-the-road talent who can work well in a team and won't rock the boat. If you're a smaller specialty shop with a long client list and a reputation for top-notch work then you can't afford a single NNPP.
- ChristianMarks 15y agoOr worse: they overspecify a development job and then expect the candidate to do helpdesk work, fix printers, diagnose NTFS-3G problems in Mac OSX Lion, where it is no longer supported, setup Skype for a secretary who won't learn her job, and become an unlicensed email therapist for a technically unsavvy supervisor who demands a 100% email delivery guarantee from a programmer with no control over email servers.
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- mnoire 15y agoI have to agree at least partially. I had better really want (or need) that job to go through the trouble. And at the same time, I find this quite refreshing. The process of submitting resumes is quite passive and limiting. While the effort to create a video might be a more laborious task, I appreciate the opportunity to represent myself outside of bullet points and buzzwords like "spearheaded". There must be some balance here between answering the same questions with the same answers and proving you are sharp, creative, interesting, etc.