re: When was the last time you hired for an open role? Everything is BS.

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When was the last time you hired for an open role? Everything is BS.

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Between 3 newly created positions and normal turnover; we've been interviewing and hiring pretty regularly. What they put on their application form is what is used 90% of the time. A science based college degree is a minimum requirement so that filters out a lot.

Our issue is that we've been having a lot of people with their PhDs applying for these entry level jobs. And that's just not what we're looking for in an entry level environmental scientist job. Mostly because there is a very small chance that (a) this is a job they want and (b) they will stick around long enough for it to be worth hiring and training them.

Once we have a list of candidates that we want to interview, we do one in person interview (mostly standard questions) per person w/ a technical writing exercise. Then we make a hiring decision. None of this Zoom/Teams pre-screen BS and no 2nd and 3rd interviews.

Try posting a job on indeed and see what bottom of the barrel applications you get. All that said, I think people applying probably have similar gripes about trying to land a new job with all the fake postings and terminally open jobs.

The system seems to be broken for both.

When I did hiring I always did in person interviews. And before I would call an application I liked, I would look them up on social media to make sure they seemed semi normal.

Glad I don't have to do this anymore.