Seen that job listing for a while, its no coincidence
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Re: Seen that job listing for a while, its no coincidence
#2I 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.
Re: Seen that job listing for a while, its no coincidence
#3Some long-term job listings, especially the vague ones, are dummies put there by recruitment firms who are keen to get you on their books.
Re: Seen that job listing for a while, its no coincidence
#4Some long-term job listings, especially the vague ones, are dummies put there by recruitment firms who are keen to get you on their books.
This would be my instant assumption as well!
Perhaps too many people are now wise to this? And so recruitment firms have had to arrange for articles (such as this one) to muddy the waters ;)
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#5I 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 lon…
This 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.
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#6I 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 lon…
The 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.
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#7> “The jobs disappearing from the economy are routine, really simple jobs. The kind of jobs that are booming are jobs that take lots of judgment and creativity. They’re harder to hire for and so it takes longer.”
Funny they ended with this. It makes some sense. The inverse is true too (for a truck driver, one can do more investigation to see if she has a safe & trustworthy background for instance) but certainly it takes more work to hire a developer than a retail salesperson.
Re: Seen that job listing for a while, its no coincidence
#8Some long-term job listings, especially the vague ones, are dummies put there by recruitment firms who are keen to get you on their books.
Another tiresome tactic that recruitment firms use is to leave up ads for roles that were actually filled months ago - either to attract CVs and/or make them look busier than they actually are.
Edit: There's probably a book waiting to be written on the dodgy tactics of recruitment firms. Mind you, I became a bit less harsh on individual recruiters when I was in an office that shared a floor of a building with a recruitment firm and got to see how they treated their staff. They were too cheap to hire meeting rooms when they were doing staff reviews so we regularly had people getting complete bollockings in the shared kitchen area - which isn't much fun to witness and a pretty ghastly way to treat your own staff.
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#923% of interviews have a drug test. What's the incentive behind that?
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#1023% of interviews have a drug test. What's the incentive behind that?
To avoid addictive folks who will have a high incidence of no-show when on a binge. Or long absences while in jail.