People, Stop Lying About Your Experience to Pass Weed-Out Questions

[Anonymous]

If only 2 out of 100 applicants has what you are expecting for the level job you are advertising, perhaps the problem is your requirements.

Are you one of those companies that requires 2 years experience for an unpaid entry level internship too?

[Anonymous]

USE AI or ATS

[Anonymous]

The problem is we need money ...and alot of these jobs require 100+ things for basic pay, so we do what we gotta do. If they didn't exaggerate their skills, they wouldn't have a chance at an interview.

Plus, a lot of skills can be learned on the job if you give people a chance.

[Anonymous]

I have the same issue as OP. 99% of the resumes I get are junk and completely unrelated to my field. The big problem is that my field doesn't have a college major associated with it and it's more skill based. There's a burnout factor at my job and a lot of the hires will never gain the skills needed. Pay is great. Our job is more research and critically analyzing. I've hired so many people who were extremely slow readers, unable to critically analyze things, poor writers, or just very slow workers (none of those things can be trained). I have asked for writing samples, but those can be fudged. I ask detailed questions in interviews to see how well people can think on their feet, but that weeds out people like me. I'm shy and bad at interviewing. I can think and write very quickly, but I cannot often say it out loud. The best thing I can do is hire persons who have done this job before and are looking for a promotion.

Skills can be learned on the job- yes but not at the salary I'm hiring at. Those people need a lot lower salary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:USE AI or ATS

we are using both that's why most get filtered. I want to start flagging all these people and recording them down for fraud or something. Why would you hire people who lie about their background?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If only 2 out of 100 applicants has what you are expecting for the level job you are advertising, perhaps the problem is your requirements.

Are you one of those companies that requires 2 years experience for an unpaid entry level internship too?

No, we have a very specialized piece of technology that requires experience as its a senior level role not entry level. We have paid internships and they require that you are in the last 2 years of your college and a related degree .

[Anonymous]

People don't know that your requirements are actually real. For a lot of jobs, they aren't.

[Anonymous]

I have sympathy for OP’s specific predicament, if it’s so tailored to a named particular technology. But times are tough and puffery, let’s call it, is a tall tale as old as time.

If people have outright lied, OP, it either means they are sneaky or desperate.

[Anonymous]

George Santos just puffed his resume a bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have the same issue as OP. 99% of the resumes I get are junk and completely unrelated to my field. The big problem is that my field doesn't have a college major associated with it and it's more skill based. There's a burnout factor at my job and a lot of the hires will never gain the skills needed. Pay is great. Our job is more research and critically analyzing. I've hired so many people who were extremely slow readers, unable to critically analyze things, poor writers, or just very slow workers (none of those things can be trained). I have asked for writing samples, but those can be fudged. I ask detailed questions in interviews to see how well people can think on their feet, but that weeds out people like me. I'm shy and bad at interviewing. I can think and write very quickly, but I cannot often say it out loud. The best thing I can do is hire persons who have done this job before and are looking for a promotion.

Skills can be learned on the job- yes but not at the salary I'm hiring at. Those people need a lot lower salary.

This job sounds awesome. Would you hire a litigator? That's basically the skillet. Would you hire me? I'm a litigator!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USE AI or ATS

we are using both that's why most get filtered. I want to start flagging all these people and recording them down for fraud or something. Why would you hire people who lie about their background?

This is your job, OP. Quit wasting your employer's time on DCUM. And definitely stop accusing people desperate to find work of malfeasance. Your job ain't that special. I'm sure half of your applicants could do it with a day-long training. Skills transfer. People are smart and motivated. (Other, people, I mean. Not you.)

[Anonymous]

OP you’re getting angry at desperate people trying to get a job to feed their families? Weed through the applications and be thankful you have a job.

Also this is what you get when Unemployment has job application requirements! If people have to submit a certain number of application in order to continue benefits (SNAP etc), you are going to get this phenomenon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have the same issue as OP. 99% of the resumes I get are junk and completely unrelated to my field. The big problem is that my field doesn't have a college major associated with it and it's more skill based. There's a burnout factor at my job and a lot of the hires will never gain the skills needed. Pay is great. Our job is more research and critically analyzing. I've hired so many people who were extremely slow readers, unable to critically analyze things, poor writers, or just very slow workers (none of those things can be trained). I have asked for writing samples, but those can be fudged. I ask detailed questions in interviews to see how well people can think on their feet, but that weeds out people like me. I'm shy and bad at interviewing. I can think and write very quickly, but I cannot often say it out loud. The best thing I can do is hire persons who have done this job before and are looking for a promotion.

Skills can be learned on the job- yes but not at the salary I'm hiring at. Those people need a lot lower salary.

You need to give them a test or case study in the interview.

[Anonymous]

Stop lying about what the job actually requires OP.

Sorry everyone is upward bullying you on this thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If only 2 out of 100 applicants has what you are expecting for the level job you are advertising, perhaps the problem is your requirements.

Are you one of those companies that requires 2 years experience for an unpaid entry level internship too?

No, we have a very specialized piece of technology that requires experience as its a senior level role not entry level. We have paid internships and they require that you are in the last 2 years of your college and a related degree .

Oh well. Time to start a training program for the technology, or offer rosy commensurate with the expected seniority and experience.