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Ask HN: How Many Applications Received from Who's Hiring Posts?

28 points by burger_moon ↗ HN
I'm a job seeker, and I'm curious about how many job applicants you the employers are seeing from your posts on the monthly Who is Hiring threads.

The number of companies posting jobs has been increasing every month this year (I'm assuming as the site gets more popular) which would indicate there is also many more job seekers coming here every month applying.

I've been relying on just this site for finding jobs for a few months now and haven't had a breakthrough yet, so I'm curious if I'm just a low quality applicant or is the competition really that fierce.

Post from throwaways or don't include your company's name if you don't feel comfortable. I'm just interested in seeing some numbers.

Thanks.

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loumf
We probably need a little more information to help. In my experience, I got enough very close matches from past companies (1 or 2) that I didn't need to look at other promising candidates. The number of applicants is irrelevant -- what matters is the number of good applicants that are a match for what I am looking for and I only need 1.

There is generally a shortage of engineers, but you still need to find a good match for what you can offer.

1. Are you applying to jobs where your skills/level/location match what was being advertised?

2. Is that clear from your application? Did you write a custom cover letter that specifically draws attention to the match?

3. Generally what level are you? What is your strongest tech stack/language? Location?

I recommend trying out other places. I got my current job on careers.stackoverflow.com -- if you need an invite, email me at loumfranco on gmail. There is also hired.com.

giaour
I've always gotten between 0 and 2.
cowpig
It's hard to say, because not everyone lists that they came via HN in their applications, but probably ~100.
smeyer
>I've been relying on just this site for finding jobs for a few months now

Any particular reason you're not using anything other than this site?

rskinner
We have Greenhouse as an ATS and use custom links for sources. Here is what I've measured since beginning to use this channel. Overall, it competes evenly with AngelList on volume and funnel performance.

59 applications since 12/14

15.3% interview rate

1.7 % hire rate

IpV8
I've posted a couple adds and usually get 0-5 hits. I think that it has to do with what time you post, how exciting the post sounds, and what technologies are being used.