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For some of our vacancies we are receiving hundreds of applications, this was not the case 2-3 years ago. Some applicants does not read the requirements, ATS re

For some of our vacancies we are receiving hundreds of applications, this was not the case 2-3 years ago. Some applicants does not read the requirements, ATS rejects almost 90+ applicants. Still it is hard to find the best match,the person who is good at hard skills and is ready to work with us at least 6-12 months. We try to identify job hoppers and try to reject them as soon as possible. Referrals works best.

syndicatedjelly 3y ago
What are some "yellow flags" that someone may be a job hopper?
- nnurmanov 3y ago
  Here what surprises me, there a number of applicant who startred a new job 2-3 months ago and already looking for new job. I always ask them why they are looking for a job change. And also, there are applicants who barely worked a year at one place. It is difficult to understand their reasons, but udually it is no.
  - datadrivenangel 3y ago
    Does getting promotions make up for shorter stints?
austin-cheney 3y ago
> Still it is hard to find the best match,the person who is good at hard skills That is such a self-inflicted failure. Employers always claim to want the best talent and simultaneously write job descriptions that treat developers as stupid commodities for their ease of selection. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Either you want bell curve average people that are easy to hire/fire or you want competent people that are capable of solving hard problems. This is a forced dichotomy. You cannot have both, as people cannot exist at two separate points on a bell curve simultaneously, though you certainly try. That is why you are getting hundreds of applicants, most fail to pass your entirely unrelated HR filter, and the rest are crap. As an example of this fail on steroids there is a major financial institution near where I live: Fidelity. I keep seeing the same job openings from those guys week after week go completely unfilled. They have completely ignored their application portal, because they are getting too many applications to process. They claim to want talent, but yet simultaneously they are only selecting for the shittiest Java developer who can magically somehow understand client-side JavaScript like a magician and yet defer everything to their bloated framework. Strangely enough they cannot seem to fill these positions even after 8-10 weeks. I promise its not for lack of compensation, and yet they still fail repeatedly. WTF... epic fail and entirely self-inflicted.

syndicatedjelly 3y ago

What are some "yellow flags" that someone may be a job hopper?

nnurmanov 3y ago
Here what surprises me, there a number of applicant who startred a new job 2-3 months ago and already looking for new job. I always ask them why they are looking for a job change. And also, there are applicants who barely worked a year at one place. It is difficult to understand their reasons, but udually it is no.
- datadrivenangel 3y ago
  Does getting promotions make up for shorter stints?

austin-cheney 3y ago

> Still it is hard to find the best match,the person who is good at hard skills That is such a self-inflicted failure. Employers always claim to want the best talent and simultaneously write job descriptions that treat developers as stupid commodities for their ease of selection. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Either you want bell curve average people that are easy to hire/fire or you want competent people that are capable of solving hard problems. This is a forced dichotomy. You cannot have both, as people cannot exist at two separate points on a bell curve simultaneously, though you certainly try. That is why you are getting hundreds of applicants, most fail to pass your entirely unrelated HR filter, and the rest are crap. As an example of this fail on steroids there is a major financial institution near where I live: Fidelity. I keep seeing the same job openings from those guys week after week go completely unfilled. They have completely ignored their application portal, because they are getting too many applications to process. They claim to want talent, but yet simultaneously they are only selecting for the shittiest Java developer who can magically somehow understand client-side JavaScript like a magician and yet defer everything to their bloated framework. Strangely enough they cannot seem to fill these positions even after 8-10 weeks. I promise its not for lack of compensation, and yet they still fail repeatedly. WTF... epic fail and entirely self-inflicted.