“Hundreds of people apply, and then it’s re-posted again. What was the problem?”
It does sometimes occur that lots of people apply to a job, and none of them perform well enough to convince the organization to hire them. So while it is possible there is some sort of malfeasance going on, I suspect that the more likely scenario is simply that organizations have very high (or very specific) requirements.
We could certainly discuss to what extent this implies the organizations are being too picky, or the organizations are overly risk averse regarding false positives (making a hire that ends up not working out), or if the candidates really do lack the skills, or if something else is a major factor here. But I would be hesitant to suggest that the org is posting a “fake” job posting without additional evidence.
To be clear, I don’t think re-posted jobs are fake (although that was truly the perspective of one person I interviewed). Having been in the hiring manager chair enough times and overseeing several failed searches, it’s usually a) requirements are too specific, b) salary offered is too low, or c) the new hire didn’t work out—rare, but it happens. What I don’t know is whether EA jobs are re-posted more frequently than jobs in the rest of the universe. My guess is that it’s a universal problem but it would be interesting to find out for sure, and if that points to a more systemic problem (EA orgs consistently offering below-market salaries, for example).
It does sometimes occur that lots of people apply to a job, and none of them perform well enough to convince the organization to hire them. So while it is possible there is some sort of malfeasance going on, I suspect that the more likely scenario is simply that organizations have very high (or very specific) requirements.
We could certainly discuss to what extent this implies the organizations are being too picky, or the organizations are overly risk averse regarding false positives (making a hire that ends up not working out), or if the candidates really do lack the skills, or if something else is a major factor here. But I would be hesitant to suggest that the org is posting a “fake” job posting without additional evidence.
To be clear, I don’t think re-posted jobs are fake (although that was truly the perspective of one person I interviewed). Having been in the hiring manager chair enough times and overseeing several failed searches, it’s usually a) requirements are too specific, b) salary offered is too low, or c) the new hire didn’t work out—rare, but it happens. What I don’t know is whether EA jobs are re-posted more frequently than jobs in the rest of the universe. My guess is that it’s a universal problem but it would be interesting to find out for sure, and if that points to a more systemic problem (EA orgs consistently offering below-market salaries, for example).