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Yeah, sometimes. It's always going to be a long shot either way though because chances are someone else has the experience needed. If i have like 80 percent, I'll apply, assming the other 20% isn't vital to the job.
Also keep in mind even if you don't meet the requirements but they have a lesser job they're trying to fill (but not advertised yet), they may consider you for that too.
This happened to me about eight years ago. I was one of two finalists for a job that I thought in all honesty I'd be a twitch over my head in. I didn't get the job, but a month later they called and offered me a different position that paid almost as much and I was completely qualified for.
I've got a business idea. A firm that specializes in quality job placement: they dig deep on which hiring tools work, which are garbage, learn the culture of businesses, test applicant skills, and just general matchmake GOOD hires. Make recommendations for future hiring patterns, as well, to preserve companies from losing massive internal expertise when the last of the properly trained staff retires. HR as it should be.
I disagree. For every college grad not getting hired, two are. We only hear about the ones with $150K in student loans working at Starbucks.
Agreed. That is what I find is that I have all required and most of the preferred. But on the healthcare and banking, I end up passing those up because of that one thing. It seems that we both miss out on a great job fit due to one requirement that could most likely be trained in short order.
But why train you when there is another applicant who has all the skills you do, plus the requirement you don't?
If the job is in IT like software development, I would do it. I think rarely does anyone meet all the requirements of an IT job. There are just too many flavors of everything so as long as you have related experience, you should be good. I have been on interviews where the interviewer still feels clever by asking specific obscure commands that would take 2 seconds to Google or look up in a book. I usually don't do well on those interviews because unless I was using that specific command yesterday, I'm not going to remember. The good interviewers ask me how I would solve problems instead of stuff I memorized.
I've done this several times in my life. Never did homecare. Found two great part time homecare jobs. Just showed up and answered the questions honestly. Got the jobs without a problem. Never worked in an office, but got a full time medical records coordination job around 2006.
My current job called for a tool maker with at least 5 years experience, CNC programming experience, masterCAM, Solidworks, tool and die experience... Told them I was willing to work cheaper than someone with the required experience and got the job without a problem. Been at it for a year, the raises have been good, and I love the job.
You won't get anywhere unless you're willing to take a chance.
I typically apply if I feel I meet 75% - 80% of the job's description. I've also found I don't get callbacks unless I meet that much of the requirements as well.
If anyone is applying for jobs for which they, "don't meet many of the requirements for" (as per the thread title), then they are an idiot and are wasting a lot of people's time. They are also just mucking up the works for those applying for those positions who actually are qualified.
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Originally Posted by annerk
But why train you when there is another applicant who has all the skills you do, plus the requirement you don't?
This. Yes, there likely will come a time when companies need to swing back towards investing more time and resources training new hires due to a lack of fully qualified candidates. But at the moment, why should a company do that when they can find applicants who do not require that additional investment.
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