Fun fact: I had a career in which I was in charge of hiring other people to fill the expanding roles in my department, and was tasked with hiring ‘more of myself’, but I was not allowed to even co wider people with my own qualifications.

I was mostly self-taught, and was only allowed to consider people with at least bachelor’s degrees in a field that didn’t even really exist yet.

You can probably guess how that went.

Fun fact: I had a career in which I was in charge of hiring other people to fill the expanding roles in my department, and was tasked with hiring ‘more of myself’, but I was not allowed to even consider people with my own qualifications.

I had a similar problem. Writing JDs for new roles I had to fill I was constantly getting them knocked back by HR.

Finally HR called me and explained that for what the job entitled we couldn’t possibly pay the market price for it.

I was like but that’s the job. Shit I thought I had made the JDs pretty succinct and austere already.

Nup apparently we’d be paying upward for $100k for a job the guys in team were only getting $60k.

As you can imagine we got a lot of applications but 90% weren’t even close to what we needed.

I was mostly self-taught, and was only allowed to consider people with at least a bachelor’s degree in a field that didn’t even really exist yet.

Same.

I personally don’t like hiring uni graduates. Their utterly lost and difficult to motivate. And almost always what they learned in university does not help whatsoever in the role. Especially dev roles.

I’d much rather find people who can look at the work

Thanks. It sounds like our backgrounds are similar.

Writing JDs for new roles I had to fill I was constantly getting them knocked back by HR.

That’s awful. It feels really bad when you feel you’re standing in the way of people getting jobs. When you would normally feel like you might be a leftist, this sort of point can be easily exploited to make you feel bad, right?

I don’t even want to address the rest of your points until we go over this one because it feels so important.