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Re: Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters

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Post by jvans »

deepsquirrelnet wrote: post #14

Recruiters conflate skills with technologies. Or perhaps the author does. I feel like a skill is something that doesn’t go away if a particular business folds. This might seem nitpicky, until you’ve had a recruiter ask how skilled you were in JIRA and demands you tell them a story about a time when you used advanced JIRA skills to solve a problem. It becomes a checklist of things that really don’t matter that much co…

I had a lightbulb moment recently where I had a recruiter ask me if I had any experience building recommendation systems. While I don't use that word on my resume, my resume is full of technologies and projects that point toward recommendation system experience.

The recruiter was tasked to find candidates with a recommendation system background but the only way they know to do that is look for that exact word.

Re: Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters

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Post by michaelrpeskin »

deepsquirrelnet wrote: post #14

Recruiters conflate skills with technologies. Or perhaps the author does. I feel like a skill is something that doesn’t go away if a particular business folds. This might seem nitpicky, until you’ve had a recruiter ask how skilled you were in JIRA and demands you tell them a story about a time when you used advanced JIRA skills to solve a problem. It becomes a checklist of things that really don’t matter that much co…

Yes! I came here to say this.

It's like saying my skills in "English" are equivalent to Maya Angelou's skills in "English"

Skills are things can do regardless of the technology/language. My skills are in computational math. I could write you a good algorithm in JavaScript with maybe a day or two of ramp-up/review of the nuances of the language. I could not (quickly) write a (good) web application in the same language.

I can deploy complex distributed computational code using EC2, I cannot even begin to understand the IAM. Do I have "Skills" in AWS?

It's such a pain when I'm reviewing resumes. I don't care about the language, I care about what you can do, and that's so hard with the checkbox system we've devolved into.

Much of my career has been based around low-level C and bit-twiddling optimizations for micro optimizations of math for speed and floating point accuracy. My current job is at a Java shop. When interviewing for that work, I hadn't touched Java since CS101 in college. I was lucky that I was interviewing at a small company that didn't have recruiters, but had me talk directly to the team and they could understand that the skill was "Math" not "Java". I still can't understand how Gradle or the rest of the Java build system we uses works, so it's good we have someone with "Skills" in DevOps to do that.

I hope the industry recognizes this soon - I think you're right, it's probably the biggest impediment to finding good candidates.

Re: Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

jurajstefanic wrote: post #2

Hi HN! After recently graduating from college, I set myself a personal project to develop a simple tool for analyzing job advertisements and extracting the most in-demand skills, technologies, and tools for various IT positions. By automatically scanning and processing data from more than 1500 job ads, the project identifies key skills and technologies that employers and recruiters are looking for. You can browse var…

'Sec' trending at #73?

Something is not right with the data. This is a fundamental.

Re: Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters

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Post by jurajstefanic »

smrtinsert wrote: post #8
jurajstefanic wrote: post #2

Hi HN! After recently graduating from college, I set myself a personal project to develop a simple tool for analyzing job advertisements and extracting the most in-demand skills, technologies, and tools for various IT positions. By automatically scanning and processing data from more than 1500 job ads, the project identifies key skills and technologies that employers and recruiters are looking for. You can browse var…

Nice work! How is the trending value calculated?

Thanks! There are three different calculations used to determine the trending value:

Average Trend – This is calculated by taking the percentage change between consecutive months and averaging these values. It gives a general sense of how skill mentions increasing or decreasing over time.

Median Trend – The percentage changes between months are sorted, and the median value is taken. This reduces the impact of extreme fluctuations and provides a more stable measure of growth.

CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) Trend – This is calculated by comparing the first and last month's skill mentions count, then applying the CAGR formula to estimate a steady growth rate over the observed period. This measures long-term trends rather than month-to-month volatility.

If there are fewer than three months of data, trends are marked as "N/A" due to insufficient data for meaningful analysis.

Re: Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters

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Post by jurajstefanic »

zapatistan wrote: post #25

Nice work, could you be able to add IoT / Embedded area as well ?

Thanks! The plan is to keep collecting and analyzing job postings while expanding the categories over time. Adding an IoT/Embedded category is a great suggestion — I’ll add it to my to-do list and look into incorporating it in future updates.

Re: Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters

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Post by J_Shelby_J »

jvans wrote: post #31
deepsquirrelnet wrote: post #14

Recruiters conflate skills with technologies. Or perhaps the author does. I feel like a skill is something that doesn’t go away if a particular business folds. This might seem nitpicky, until you’ve had a recruiter ask how skilled you were in JIRA and demands you tell them a story about a time when you used advanced JIRA skills to solve a problem. It becomes a checklist of things that really don’t matter that much co…

I had a lightbulb moment recently where I had a recruiter ask me if I had any experience building recommendation systems. While I don't use that word on my resume, my resume is full of technologies and projects that point toward recommendation system experience. The recruiter was tasked to find candidates with a recommendation system background but the only way they know to do that is look for that exact word.

Because asking an LLM to create a list of technologies used to build a recommendation system is not a skill they have?

Re: Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters

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Post by MichaelRo »

Well, 1500 jobs is a drop in the ocean and I wanted to object on the number of occurrences of "C++" (one. one!!, wtf?!).

But I have no counter-example to give because LinkedIn is abjectly useless, shows me 192,518 jobs for "c++ in European Union", where the first ones in the list title "Sales Engineer".

Really, the only reason I'm still on LinkedIn is because everyone is there but boy would I leave the motherfuckers if a valid alternative would show up. It's abysmally bad and I hate it deeply, profoundly and sincerely and I really hope it (LinkedIn) dies in flames and Microsoft along with it.

Re: Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters

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Post by myheartisinohio »

diego_moita wrote: post #12

Cute but useless. * 99% of jobs advertised online are fake, including HN's Who's Hiring. They are posted just because some manager wanted to fake growth, wanted to pretend fairness for a position that will be given to patronage, forgot to remove an add posted long ago, etc. Like in online dating, online job postings is mostly a scam. * The "most wanted" skills are somewhere between the "junior skills that are necessa…

>99% of jobs advertised online are fake

Doomer much?

Re: Show HN: I analyzed 1500+ job ads to find the most wanted skills by recruiters

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Post by drewcoo »

deepsquirrelnet wrote: post #14

Recruiters conflate skills with technologies. Or perhaps the author does. I feel like a skill is something that doesn’t go away if a particular business folds. This might seem nitpicky, until you’ve had a recruiter ask how skilled you were in JIRA and demands you tell them a story about a time when you used advanced JIRA skills to solve a problem. It becomes a checklist of things that really don’t matter that much co…

I would just like to say that "advanced JIRA skills" exist.

But if you need them, the business is likely f'ed and you should leave. Rapidly.

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