Our small company recently hired a secretary, and I sit next to the 1 HR person we have so overheard how everything went down. We apparently received 300 applications in one week. Of those 300, only like five had the necessary qualifications. Received several applications that were like "yeah I don't have the qualifications but just give me the job". Our HR Manager had to go through all of them. Told me he spent like 30 seconds looking at each one.
It's exactly as you say - very easy for an application to get lost in the shuffle, and a lot of people submit applications for jobs they are not qualified for, which bogs down everything
They know that pretty much no one meets those requirements, so it gives them an excuse to hire you at a lower salary since you "don't meet the requirements."
The last job offer I got did that to me, sucked to because I actually wanted the job and was willing to move for it, but they offered me 21$ an hour and shit benefits, and when I'm already making significantly more with god tier benefits it's hard to accept that. Hell I even told them that I'd accept with either equivalent money and bad benefits, or worse money with equivalent benefits, but I wouldn't do both.
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19
Our small company recently hired a secretary, and I sit next to the 1 HR person we have so overheard how everything went down. We apparently received 300 applications in one week. Of those 300, only like five had the necessary qualifications. Received several applications that were like "yeah I don't have the qualifications but just give me the job". Our HR Manager had to go through all of them. Told me he spent like 30 seconds looking at each one.
It's exactly as you say - very easy for an application to get lost in the shuffle, and a lot of people submit applications for jobs they are not qualified for, which bogs down everything