It's the same concept. Even with niche tech. If you can't hire a good candidate in a buyers market, and repeatedly get bad hires, what's your interview pipeline doing? Paying too low, getting reqs wrong in a game of telephone? Hiring through nepotism instead of merit?
I'm just a bit tired of the "but we need to avoid bad hires" narrative. Especially since a certain blundermouth more or less said the quiet part out loud for the intentions many have with that. It made sense in 2022, but is that really an issue in 2025? If you can't "find solid candidates" now, how did you Faire in non-bust markets?
A small relatively unknown company outside of more popular job markets will not get huge numbers of applicants to posts on a random job board. That doesn't make those posts malicious on the company's part. It's just a relatively illiquid market.
They may need other help to find a candidate, e.g. recruiters. But that's a different topic than the OP, which is about "online job postings"
You really haven't seen how much of a buyers market this is, have you? Even small unknown companies can throw a post on and get hundreds of responses in hours. Yes, a lot is slop, but we're still talking some dozens of genuine candidates that needs any job.
> But that's a different topic than the OP, which is about "online job postings"
This whole topic is about online job postings. Smaller groups that don't just grab their friends need to find talent too.
I know -- in popular markets, for more general roles, you will get lots of valid candidates.
If you need specific skills in a specific geographic area, you probably still get a lot of responses, but the vast majority (if not all) aren't going to be suitable. Really, these jobs don't have much luck being filled on job boards, because it isn't the best medium to hire those people, but many companies will put them out there anyway to broaden their reach.
Sure, it comes down to your filters at the end. But I think legitimately needing a unicorn or domain expert is different from the above statement of
> hiring organically just doesn't result in solid candidates.
the tech hiring has been a bit annoying for a decade now, but this simply sounds like a narrative for someone simply wanting an H1B rather than one who is simply bad at finding talent.
