Let's also talk about this "apply anyway" advice that always gets thrown around with these statements. Sure.. it would be great advice if it was as easy as hitting a button, but it's usually not. It's really important for companies / managers to set the tone in the job 1/ https://twitter.com/kaydacode/status/1348682459521683456

descriptions for the level of experience they are looking for. 1. This helps the candidate gauge where they're unique experience levels up to what the role is trying to fill, 2. The early part of the hiring process is generally with recruiters and people that would take that 2/

number of years experience to heart. Backing up, it's NOT as easy as hitting a button. Most platforms will have you be manually entering your experience, or fixing what it finds in your resume, before you can apply. I've had this take up to an hour before! 3/

It's extremely time consuming, and for what? A recruiter is very likely to reject your application because you don't match that one special metric that has been deemed important. That's just the time aspect, let alone the mental toll of applying and waiting for a response.. 4/

then the confidence toll if you are declined. If by some silver lining you are accepted to interview, then later declined because you don't meet the metric, it's an even bigger mental and confidence blow. 5/

Sure, there's edge cases and success stories, which I'm all for! However, it would be truly best to fix the problem at its source and *write better job descriptions*.

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