30,000 Applicants for the Suffolk County Police Test

[SilverBulletZ06]

I'm one of those people.

Hell they could lower it 20% and I'd still go for it. PD and teaching is the LI Lotto.

[NYEconomist]

Originally Posted by redrunner+2

Not only is it free to take the test if you are unemployed, but if you have been in a position to hire recently you will know that if you had 1 advertised opening, you would certainly receive more than 150 resumes.

Comparing this to a job advertisement is a bit odd. This is a test to be offered a position if a job comes open. All of these people are taking a test without any guarantee that a job will ever open.

Better to compare this to a civil service exam. Let's see, I think the librarian test on Long Island had 500 test takers. The police test had 30,000. Hmmmmmmmmmmm, maybe we should lower the salary and see if we can whittle that down to 15,000????

[redrunner+2]

Originally Posted by Goodnight

Please let me and the Harvard Business School know the position that is getting 150 applicants for 1 opening?

My husband has been interviewing for several openings. He easily gets hundreds of resumes for one position. IT for Financial Services, FT w/ benefits. It is sad bcs some roles are entry level and you have lots of ppl who are way OQ'd but they have been laid-off/consulting/underemployed and they need benefits. This is also a time of year when you get lots of resumes from new grads.

If you are unemployed and it is free to take the test, then why not take it? I'm sure to be hired as a librarian you'd need to have a Masters in Library Science so that would eliminate a large number of applicants.

Correlation does not imply causation.

[Goodnight]

Originally Posted by redrunner+2

My husband has been interviewing for several openings. He easily gets hundreds of resumes for one position. IT for Financial Services, FT w/ benefits. It is sad bcs some roles are entry level and you have lots of ppl who are way OQ'd but they have been laid-off/consulting/underemployed and they need benefits. This is also a time of year when you get lots of resumes from new grads.

If you are unemployed and it is free to take the test, then why not take it? I'm sure to be hired as a librarian you'd need to have a Masters in Library Science so that would eliminate a large number of applicants.

Correlation does not imply causation.

I don't see any civil servant tests with applicants of that magnitude, especially since they don't have any idea when and how many hires. They are there because it's the best job around, there are college grads that won't have any guarantee of getting to $108K in 5 years not including all the benefits.

I don't have much experience with IT Financial but I would really have to question that you are getting applicants in the 100's, that postion is a specialty and requires a solid backgound in programming.

[I_Love_LI_but]

Originally Posted by Goodnight

I don't see any civil servant tests with applicants of that magnitude, especially since they don't have any idea when and how many hires. They are there because it's the best job around, there are college grads that won't have any guarantee of getting to $108K in 5 years not including all the benefits.

I don't have much experience with IT Financial but I would really have to question that you are getting applicants in the 100's, that postion is a specialty and requires a solid backgound in programming.

Applications in the 100s (usually way above the 100's) is common place if you are advertising the jobs on the internet where ANYONE, located anywhere in the world, can see the job posting! Trust me on that one.