Do you have any qualifiers for that? Like "with sufficient time to learn" or something? Is there some kind of personal development that you think could enable that?

In my understanding, asking a chef to be a doctor or a software engineer to be an artist often doesn't work great.

How selective do you think is appropriate?

To be clear: I'm a hiring manager for some specialized stuff. I'm genuinely curious about your perspective because I hope it can help how I do that work. I'm not trying to argue with you or prove you wrong or anything.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Given enough time.

Obviously professions that take years to study have that barrier to entry.

But if your job isn't life or death most likely they will already have to teach you everything you need to know on the job.

[–] TheBeege@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Got it. Okay, that makes much more sense. Nothing new there for me, then.

When you say companies shouldn't be "this selective," what are you referencing that they're being too selective about? If I'm being more picky than I need to be, I should stop, so I'm eager to learn something here

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I think collecting applications for months just to tell 99% of applicants they wasted their time is part of what's making the job market so horrible, that and most job postings being fake.

For service jobs and really any job that doesn't require special licenses there's absolutely no good reason why they shouldn't hire one of the first to apply instead of holding out.

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