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28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days

302 points · 364 comments · rubatrejo

  1. Aurornis · · focus · HN ↗
    This statistic constantly confuses people who haven't done hiring.

    If we decide we're going to grow headcount by 10 senior software engineers, we don't copy and paste the same job listing 10 times. We leave it open and collect resumes through that. At a large or fast growing company, we might never stop interviewing and hiring senior software engineers. The listing stays open for a year or more.

    There are also specialty roles where hiring takes months. I've had niche roles open where we didn't get any applicants with any experience on the topic for over 90 days on multiple occasions.

    1. throwaway27448 · · focus · HN ↗
      > We leave it open and collect resumes through that.

      This is really shitty behavior. If you aren't hiring, remove the posting.

      1. shaewest · · focus · HN ↗
        How is it shitty behaviour. "I are hiring 10 people, we won't remove the job listing until 10 people are hired."
        1. throwaway27448 · · focus · HN ↗
          If I apply to a job, I expect you to get back to me within the week. Anything else is just disrespectful to me and wasting my time.
          1. sokoloff · · focus · HN ↗
            I agree that every applicant should get a response (probably 2, 1 immediately of “hey, got your application” and a second of “not proceeding” or “we’d like to talk”).

            I think one thing that job seekers often miss is just how ridiculous the firehouse of low quality applications is. They know they’re competent, but they can’t accurately estimate how many others aren’t and have built up (or borrowed) machinery that lets them apply to hundreds of job postings per day. That level of noise is what causes things to have to be automated on the inbound side as well and where automated scoring tools or gates before talking to an actual human come from.

            I still agree you should get a reply, but the first two are overwhelmingly likely to be automated.

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