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A comment on Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified (2014).

Re:Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualif... by artful-hacker on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @06:34PM (#27694289)
I find this especially annoying because HR insists on having these "Hard Requirements" like years of experience, GPA, or other things. I just want someone who is smart, gets things done, and somewhat likes the thing they are going to be doing.
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Re:Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualif... by Karsteski on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @06:51PM (#27694443)
The hard requirements do seem to be doing quite the disservice to the job search experience...

As someone who's applying to software developer jobs now (chemist who self-taught), it is quite frustrating as I know many of my applications are thrown out due to HR ignorance whereas if I were able to contact someone internal, there would be traction.

All the more reason to message people directly :)

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Re:Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualif... by artful-hacker on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @06:54PM (#27694478)
Indeed, though now I am thinking that messaging people directly can be construed as "breaking the rules", which may somehow or probably is related to women not applying for jobs.
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