[discostu]

So the fact that the vast majority of applicants for a position are hideously under qualified is supposed to mean what exactly? When I was hiring for QA positions I'd get 30 to 50 resumes, prune down to 5 that I'd bring in for an interview and hopefully hire 1. The hardest part was generally getting 5 worthy of interview, I sorted resumes into 3 piles: yes, maybe, and no. If I got 30 resumes the yes pile on first pass would usually be 2 or 3, about twice that many maybes and everybody else was no (then there were the one or two I made fun of, there are some bad resumes out there).

For a high profile company I'm sure the numbers are much worse. I know Pima College gets as many as 200 applicants to a position. But there's nothing that garauntees even 1 is worth hiring.

Most of the people applying for jobs are simply not qualified for them. The percentage of applicants hired is pretty meaningless, all it really tells you is how much garbage the HR department has to wade through.

[FormerLurker]

The percentage of applicants hired is pretty meaningless, all it really tells you is how much garbage the HR department has to wade through.

The only thing that qualifies a applicant these days is their H1-B visa. Americans need not apply, and that IS the way it is. I doubt you actually work in the IT industry, as back on a previous thread you didn't even know what a database was and how it was used. You're analytical skills are sorely lacking, and for you to pass judgement on others technically is ludricrous.

[blueriver]

Most of the people applying for jobs are simply not qualified for them.

This is simply not true. I know very many qualified engineers who have worked in the industry for 15-20 years who can not even get an interview. The HR departments are throwing away a lot of good resumes because the applicants are Americans or are over the age of 40.

[anu_shr]

% applicants to hired is a meaningless ratio to be used. Companies like Microsoft will always attract junk resumes in large numbers.. so even if they get about 300 K resumes a year.. 2% hired of that is 6000 people which is what MS hired in good old days. Smaller companies will not attract those numbers ... but one out of fifty unscreened applicants who actually get hired is a VERY GOOD ratio in tech hiring.

The ratio to compare will be % of qualified applicants hired for citizens and H1B.