61% of “Entry-Level” Jobs Require 3+ Years of Experience

Re:61% of “Entry-Level” Jobs Require 3+ Years of Experience by fiblye on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @10:03PM (#16703982)

>2) Yes. Half or more of the applications I've reviewed are totally unqualified. Either they ignored the requirements or fudge it and flop on the interview.

Common advice is that job posters put insane requirements on their posting because they don't really expect an entry level applicant to have 15 years experience in HTML5, Joomla, C++14, Bootstrap, Hypercard, Quechua, nuclear physics, and Go, just a little bit of exposure to half of them. It's not surprising that unreasonably underqualified people respond to job postings with unreasonably high expectations, and that all job postings end up not being taken seriously.

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Re:61% of “Entry-Level” Jobs Require 3+ Years of Experience by pjc50 on Thursday March 29, 2018 @05:36AM (#16705698)

> 15 years experience in HTML5, Joomla, C++14, Bootstrap, Hypercard, Quechua, nuclear physics, and Go,

This is what you put in a job advert when you want to hire your mate who matches that description but feel obliged to publicly tender the job instead.

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Re:61% of “Entry-Level” Jobs Require 3+ Years of Experience by sudomake on Thursday March 29, 2018 @03:07PM (#16710116)

Has c++14 existed for 15 years yet?

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