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legit question: do you have good luck cold-applying for high end jobs in this market? I just posted a senior full-stack developer job at 130-150 CAD and we've gotten 100's of applicants. So much wheat is going to get discarded with the chaff

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Can I ask how you filter candidates?

I have applied to numerous companies and get what look like mostly automatic rejections despite many years of experience, shipping products, research, etc. I also have experienced friends who say hiring is very slow and cold right now, it's not just me. Do you use any sort of automation?

My current position was a cold application that pays over $200k USD. Sounds like the problem is on your end not being willing to sort through the chaff to find the wheat.

For a single position and 500 resumes presented, how much time are you willing to allocate per applicant on the first and second pass through the stack?

Depends on the importance of the position. I'd be willing to spend a minute or two on each resume. I'd probably take a week to get through them.

If I'm hiring directly for my team, I might even take more time on each resume.

Would you be throwing out a lot of the potential good hires with only a minute looking at a resume? And likewise, are you sure you’re not getting false positives of poorly qualified candidates with good resumes in only a minute of looking at the resume?

This is what the GP is lamenting.

At 500 minutes of time, this is a solid day of non stop resume reading.

130 CAD doesn't buy much wheat.

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