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Re:Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History by mjevans on Monday October 09, 2017 @04:58PM (#15437411)
Starting anything new is a drain on resources. Someone with time to focus on interviewing is bound to be better than someone with a new job they need to figure out. After all, it usually takes a few months to get anyone up to speed in a job, and this is assuming they're giving lots of effort.

For existing jobs? Inertia is probably a factor there, as well as fear of the unknown. When you've got something to loose it's different than having nothing to loose.

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Re:Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History by brianwawok on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @12:03PM (#15442891)
> Someone with time to focus on interviewing is bound to be better than someone with a new job they need to figure out

In my experience, that is not how it plays out.

Candidate A is living at home with his parents in some kind of GP paradise, able to give 100% of his time to interviewing.

Candidate B is working a stable but not fulfilling job, and interviewing on his lunch break / evening / morning to make it work.

Candidate B is going to be perceived as the higher value candidate, and all else being equal get more offers. Some of this is a value bias. You interview A and go "wow, he's not working now, I wonder what is wrong with him?"... you interview B and go "wow, he is a stable guy that can hold a job, he seems a slightly better fit".

Thinking that interviewing is some kind of magic trivia question that you need to devote full time study to is silly. Perhaps some jobs are like that, but I am not sure I would want to work there.

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