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I personally have little confidence in job postings that I've seen available for at least three months. Similarly with apartments rentals - in a market where de
by s_dev 11y ago
I personally have little confidence in job postings that I've seen available for at least three months. Similarly with apartments rentals - in a market where developers and apartments are high in demand I usually see it as a red flag if a job or apartment has been available for three or more months. It begs the questions - why didn't others take it?
I never considered that the average interview process is getting longer.
- vkjv 11y agoThis fails to take into consideration a growing team. We have had a single job listing open well over a year, but that single listing at one point represented 7 open positions. It's interesting to see this possible view. We might be better off posting duplicates to make this nuance more obvious.
- jerf 11y agoEven just an annotation "This post represents multiple open positions" might be good. It also directly sends a message you want to send ("we're growing and hiring lots!"), instead of implicitly by number of listings, which might be missed by a candidate doing searches.
- surge 11y agoProbably saves money where most job listing sites post per listing. You can simply list that you're hiring for multiple open positions in the listing itself.
- dagw 11y agoThe other difference between job postings and apartment rentals is that only one person can rent an apartment, but lots of people can be employed to the same position. You could have same ad out for 6 month, and over that time hire 5-10 people.
- madcaptenor 11y agoOnly one person can rent an apartment, but a large apartment complex will have many similar apartments that could be fairly represented by the same ad.
- ufmace 11y agoI have thought that too - if they keep the same listing up for too long, I may wonder if there's some reason why they can't hire and/or keep employees. If your company is actually trying to fill multiple identical positions, it's probably best to make that clear somehow - that they're growing rapidly and the listing isn't for a specific position so much as that they're always open to hiring anybody who has the right qualifications.