What I learned today: Never apply for a job

Re:What I learned today: Never apply for a job by euroclydon on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @12:41PM (#2734683)

There are so many reasons why a company might not be good at recruiting employees. They run from not having enough time, to opening an office in a new city, or simply being willing to outsource networking so they can do stuff they like.

If you're looking for a job as a place to make friends and work with interesting people, fine, that's good stuff. But, many places of work are simply businesses, trying to make money for their owners. Recruiters want to find competent and experienced workers who can come in and get stuff done. It's not all lowballing and keyword bingo.

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Re:What I learned today: Never apply for a job by sbisker on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @01:30PM (#2734937)

That may be true, but it's obvious that recruiting has a problem if it's so hard to separate the wheat from the chaff in their own ranks. It's the same problem with realty and real estate agents.

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Re:What I learned today: Never apply for a job by kisielk on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @07:44PM (#2736487)

In our case our company is in an industry (biotech) that traditionally doesn't seem to attract a lot of developers. Most of the developers I know in my network are either game or web app developers.

When we have openings they're usually reluctant to apply because the positions normally benefit from a solid math or sciences background, or they'd rather be working on more general-purpose software than that used for drug R&D.

That's mostly why we use job posting sites and we've actually managed to find solid team members via StackOverflow and some local job posting sites.

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