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1 posted on 10/07/2025 4:01:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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the majority can easily be tested and punted


2 posted on 10/07/2025 4:08:31 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: nickcarraway

Matches my experience posting a job for full stack developer. 600 applications, most of whom weren’t qualified. 2/3 of the remainder lied on their resumes.

I’ve never seen this in 40 years of hiring and building dev teams.


3 posted on 10/07/2025 4:34:32 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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I feel very thankful to have caught the IT wave back in the late 80s. I took it for granted back then and now realize how fortunate I was.


4 posted on 10/07/2025 4:39:57 PM PDT by JZelle
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A bunch of gobbledygook .


5 posted on 10/07/2025 4:45:17 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: nickcarraway
Another visible trend is that hiring managers are taking their time to find the “right” person, and don’t settle for candidates who don’t check all the boxes.

You could hire someone who knows how to learn. You could mentor. You could groom. You could train. Find someone who is 80% of what you are looking for and then get them up to 100%. No? That's not in the budget? You require absolute perfection right out of the gate? Well, it might be hard to find that person. And it's only going to get harder.

6 posted on 10/07/2025 4:49:21 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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I checked out when 3 or 4 guys asked me how I could produce a query, based upon part no. that had 2 tables which had, a master file table mind you, which had different attributes of the same component. Is that an inner our outer table join?


7 posted on 10/07/2025 5:36:09 PM PDT by kawhill ("I'm going to miss your stories, Robert. You have your own ones now.")
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To: nickcarraway

Hiring managers and companies have been total asshoes for going on 20 years.

It’s no wonder developers are grasping at straws.


12 posted on 10/07/2025 5:58:58 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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Please mail in your resume using $10 in postage.

Watch the problem of too many obviously unqualified applicants disappear.


15 posted on 10/07/2025 7:04:17 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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>> “Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired”.

LOL


16 posted on 10/07/2025 7:12:16 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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The referred and recruited have long been preferred over unsolicited and ad-responding applicants.

But an increasingly national or even international job market, with tech making ever more applications possible, makes the raw numbers climb. Reminds me of applications to college. The easier it became to submit many applications, the more applicants per slot were reported. Still the same number of total applicants and slots, but the numbers got juiced all around.


17 posted on 10/07/2025 7:14:48 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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I believe this ties into something important. If all these people are looking for work, WHY DO WE NEED H1-Bs? *SURELY* there’s SOMEONE qualified for each of these positions in the flood of candidates.


19 posted on 10/07/2025 8:58:03 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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I’m glad I’m retired.


24 posted on 10/08/2025 3:00:11 AM PDT by McGruff
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