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Ask HN: Recruiters, why do you repost jobs with 1000 applications a month later?

28 points charliebwrites | 4 comments | 18 Nov 24 22:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.259s | source

The majority of jobs on LinkedIn right now seem to be reposts of jobs from a month or two ago.

You can see from the application data that each role that's been reposted already has hundreds of applicants, which implies that it did last month as well.

Why would you repost a role vs just going through the 1000 applications you received last time?

What is the reasoning there?

1. bojo ◴[18 Nov 24 23:57 UTC] No.42178614[source]▶
I asked that same question here a while back.

One of the answers was (paraphrased), "because we're constantly recruiting for that title, but maybe not the same team." I'm not sure if that was a good or bad sign. Growth? Or constant turnover? Really makes you wonder.

I manage a highly stable tier 2 software team embedded in enterprise, and only recruit maybe once every ~2 years, if that. Hard to relate to what is going on these days.

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3. isbvhodnvemrwvn ◴[19 Nov 24 20:24 UTC] No.42187709[source]▶
If your company has 1k devs you'll have to hire several people every single week. At the same time if you want any level of consistency, you can't let teams who have not hired for 2 years come up with their own process, so that's why pipelines are a thing.
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4. bojo ◴[19 Nov 24 22:36 UTC] No.42188827[source]▶
I assume most HN job posts are from small startups. Even if they are established companies with a sizable head count, it seems weird seeing the same exact job post month after month for a year or two straight.

> you can't let teams who have not hired for 2 years come up with their own process

Perhaps? We're a 9 person backend department inside a 250 person ISP. Not the typical type of team we talk about here on HN. I doubt small startups need a pipeline either, they just hire on demand.