🚀 Building Australia's Thriving Startup Ecosystem as Co-Founder @ Scouut 📚 Author: The Startup Hiring Playbook
"We've had 200+ applicants so we won't need your help" It's quite logical to assume that more applications will lead to an easier time getting your open role filled. Unfortunately, start-up recruitment is rarely logical, and a huge amount of applications often means one or some of a few things: 1. Your advert isn't clear enough with role requirements, and it isn't speaking directly enough to your actual target market (who will be suitable for the job). 2. It's attracting serial appliers (candidates who have applied a tonne of ads alongside your own). Your chances on these candidates are super slim. 3. Your advert is doing an excellent job at drawing attention from AI application software (mentioning lots of languages/frameworks will do this). 4. It's a remote role - you can't avoid this but a remote ad will be 80-90% overseas candidates with no Australian working rights. I actually counted, and in 2024, just under 50% of the managers who initially pointed to 'fantastic' applicant numbers went on to engage us on the same role less than 2 weeks later. P.S. - Waiting the 2 weeks is optional ;)
Technical Leadership | Product Engineering | Software Architecture
9mo#4 is a killer. We used to see at least 90% overseas applicants for engineering roles at Envato whenever we advertised on LinkedIn, and while we sponsored visas at times, the vast majority didn’t make it past a CV screening stage, let alone a call with our TA staff.