Taylor Desseyn explains why candidates apply to jobs they don't actually want. Overqualified applicants and those seeking higher pay distort hiring pools, frustrating managers and wasting everyone's time.
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What we want to get rid of is the casual application of like, oh yeah, sure, and then they get further down and they're like, oh sorry, never mind, because that's actually— now we've given a bad experience for the hiring manager. Sometimes it's the hiring manager and all the other job seekers. So somebody who's actually like amazing is like, yeah, I'd like this job, but in reality they're overqualified, they're at a higher bill rate, and so they come through the process and they're like, well, I loved Mark, and now Mark made all the other people in the pool who are actually within your budget look bad. It really screws things up. It messes things up if somebody applies to a job in bad faith or applies to a job when they're like a mismatch on the economic side of it because it just— It has—