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I've seen job ads in popular sites like LinkedIn, that say 771 people have applied for that job already. Sometimes it's even more. Why would that many people apply for a job but it's still being listed?
Maybe it's not a real job ad - or a promotional thing?
There might be a set deadline for stopping accepting applications. The business (or government) will keep accepting applications until that published deadline.
Plus, sad fact, if 771 people have applied, 750 of them do not know anything about how to do the job. They need a job, like the salary offered, and hope they can just fake it.
This is a big part of it. We have to keep them open for a certain time or risk complaints that the announcement was rigged.
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Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke
There might be a set deadline for stopping accepting applications. The business (or government) will keep accepting applications until that published deadline.
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And oh boy is this true:
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Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke
Plus, sad fact, if 771 people have applied, 750 of them do not know anything about how to do the job. They need a job, like the salary offered, and hope they can just fake it.
The last few jobs we advertised before I retired, I went through over a thousand resumes and less than a hundred would meet the minimum requirements. I mean things like the advertisement is for an engineer or a physicist and most of the applications would either be generic non technical degrees or even no degree at all.
The last few jobs we advertised before I retired, I went through over a thousand resumes and less than a hundred would meet the minimum requirements. I mean things like the advertisement is for an engineer or a physicist and most of the applications would either be generic non technical degrees or even no degree at all.
Most resumes are sceened out by computer these days. Then HR screens out additional resumes and only come to the hiring manager with a much less number of potential candidates.
Most resumes are sceened out by computer these days. Then HR screens out additional resumes and only come to the hiring manager with a much less number of potential candidates.
It depends. Sometimes software fails. People also click boxes to get through the screening software. Example: Do you have X certification? followed by a yes or no check box.
Some people don't read the qualifications, while others think they will win someone over with their personality. We post jobs that require a specific state license and people who aren't remotely qualified apply. Talked to one on the phone once to enquire about their failure to mention their license on their resume and they replied that they didn't have a license, but they were a fast learner.
HR has never screened applications at any of my professional jobs. They make sure policy is followed -- they don't have anything to do with screening or deciding who gets interviewed.
Most resumes are sceened out by computer these days. Then HR screens out additional resumes and only come to the hiring manager with a much less number of potential candidates.
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Originally Posted by joe from dayton
It depends. Sometimes software fails. People also click boxes to get through the screening software. Example: Do you have X certification? followed by a yes or no check box.
Some people don't read the qualifications, while others think they will win someone over with their personality. We post jobs that require a specific state license and people who aren't remotely qualified apply. Talked to one on the phone once to enquire about their failure to mention their license on their resume and they replied that they didn't have a license, but they were a fast learner.
HR has never screened applications at any of my professional jobs. They make sure policy is followed -- they don't have anything to do with screening or deciding who gets interviewed.
Our HR quit screening some years ago. It got to where everyone who was applying checked the "I'm an expert" box on everything like joe says above. And the HR folks don't have the subject matter knowledge to read the resume and manually screen. Mostly they just enforce policy on us while we do 90% of the hiring process.
Why? Some, I think, believe they are entitled to the job. Others are following the shotgun approach and applying to everything they see.
Why do so many people apply to jobs if they don't have the requirements? Do they just not look at the details?
The average US worker thinks themselves to be overqualified to be the CEO of a Fortune 10 company. Therefor, every job announcement is beneath them so they feel they are a shoe-in for every position.
Why do so many people apply to jobs if they don't have the requirements? Do they just not look at the details?
Hope-slash-desperation (or perhaps an unemployment-program requirement that they apply to X number of jobs per week), plus a culture that often advises people to apply for jobs they don't qualify for.
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