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I work for a medium sized, fairly niche market software company. We've had a couple of entry/junior level positions open in two offices in suburbs of fairly large metros for quite awhile now. Pay and benefits are very competitive, but we've had next to no applicants. One position has had no applicants in three weeks. The jobs are listed on a few industry sites and Indeed.
We certainly aren't looking for purple squirrels, some sort of financial/technical degree with a decent understanding of SQL is about all we require. It's also not like we're getting a bunch of bad applicants, we're simply getting next to no applicants.
You must not be advertising effectively or your ad is not communicating effectively what you are looking for. Try DICE.
I checked DICE and while there are a lot of postings requiring experience with our product, the actual company didn't have a single job listed. Our site lead recently got permission from HQ to use a local recruiter, but he isn't convinced it's helping and thinks he could do better recruiting from area colleges on his own.
We had two positions open recently that required the same skillset (not entry level, but a solid understanding of SQL required ... it was for a II-level position); however, we had tons of applications, but there were only two people within that pool that sort of fit. We had shift leaders from McD's apply and PhD's in software engineering requiring a minimum of 160K/year apply.
I work for a medium sized, fairly niche market software company. We've had a couple of entry/junior level positions open in two offices in suburbs of fairly large metros for quite awhile now. Pay and benefits are very competitive, but we've had next to no applicants. One position has had no applicants in three weeks. The jobs are listed on a few industry sites and Indeed.
We certainly aren't looking for purple squirrels, some sort of financial/technical degree with a decent understanding of SQL is about all we require. It's also not like we're getting a bunch of bad applicants, we're simply getting next to no applicants.
Has anyone seen this recently?
I recommend you get rid of whoever your using to recruit employees. A posting on Monster, Career Builder, Dice or Indeed.com will yield you hundreds of applications. Especially for entry level positions.
I work for a medium sized, fairly niche market software company. We've had a couple of entry/junior level positions open in two offices in suburbs of fairly large metros for quite awhile now. Pay and benefits are very competitive, but we've had next to no applicants. One position has had no applicants in three weeks. The jobs are listed on a few industry sites and Indeed.
We certainly aren't looking for purple squirrels, some sort of financial/technical degree with a decent understanding of SQL is about all we require. It's also not like we're getting a bunch of bad applicants, we're simply getting next to no applicants.
Has anyone seen this recently?
SQL is borrrrrriiiinnnnnggggg. I'll never go back to it.
Did you actually check the Indeed job posting? We posted a job once and found out later that due to a glitch in their system the job never actually posted. Try doing a search.
Also, we've gotten some great people by posting on Craigslist.
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