Diversity and recruiting developers

Posted Jun 8, 2013 18:52 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)
In reply to: Diversity and recruiting developers by khim
Parent article: Diversity and recruiting developers

you write very specific requirements to have a valid reason to reject candidates you don't like

How does that work? I'm talking about the solicitation for candidates; so how do you even get a candidate to evaluate if you state requirements no candidate has? Do job seekers ignore the requirements in job listings and apply anyway?

Or maybe the listings aren't real solicitations but just formalities, as another poster suggested, and the authors of them actually recruit a different way.

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Diversity and recruiting developers

Posted Jun 8, 2013 18:59 UTC (Sat) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] (1 responses)

How does that work? I'm talking about the solicitation for candidates; so how do you even get a candidate to evaluate if you state requirements no candidate has? Do job seekers ignore the requirements in job listings and apply anyway?

Sometimes, yes; after all, there's a decent chance that the skillset requirement was written by the PHB or Catbert instead of the people who know what the jobs actually require.

Or maybe the listings aren't real solicitations but just formalities, as another poster suggested, and the authors of them actually recruit a different way.

This is also a possibility. Often, a meticulously tailored job description means "we want to hire J. Specific Hacker so we will write a skill set that is exactly the skill set of J. Specific Hacker; in the event that someone who is J. Specific Hacker only better applying, well, we might hire them instead".

Diversity and recruiting developers

Posted Jun 8, 2013 22:05 UTC (Sat) by hummassa (guest, #307) [Link]

> This is also a possibility. Often, a meticulously tailored job description means "we want to hire J. Specific Hacker so we will write a skill set that is exactly the skill set of J. Specific Hacker; in the event that someone who is J. Specific Hacker only better applying, well, we might hire them instead".

Yeah, but more often is like "int the event that someone who is J. Specific Hacker only better applying, well, don't bother because we are going to hire J. Specific Hacker instead."

Diversity and recruiting developers

Posted Jun 13, 2013 12:40 UTC (Thu) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link]

>Do job seekers ignore the requirements in job listings and apply anyway?

Yes, and that's why the kind of practice khim suggests is bad business practice (in addition to being blatantly immoral and arguably illegal).

These requirements basically mean that the only candidates they get, by definition, are the kind of people who ignore requirements - I don't want to work with people who will happily ignore requirements. Who does?