You’ve linked to some EA Forum comment sandwiched dead in the middle of a really long thread, which itself links only to some unverified Twitter account with only 418 followers.
This is like whispering in the wind and expecting the wind to carry your speech down a mile, then blaming people in the town a mile away for not responding to your whisper.
Why are you surprised that nobody contacted you? How is this example in any way rebutting the post?
Sure, “hiring managers being bad at marketing is the bottleneck, not funding” is at least partially true. It still implies that if you happen to stumble across a poorly advertised position, you shouldn’t expect the acceptance rate to be low!
“Poor advertising” would imply that you stuck official-looking posters of your job offer in the wrong places, like inside alleyways.
But posting your job offer on a Twitter profile that looks like one of a million bot accounts is actually more the equivalent of leaving unmarked USB sticks in public restrooms and expecting people to plug them into their computers.
Sure, not the metaphor I would use but I broadly agree that applicants who are willing to plug the metaphorical USB stick into their computer (e.g. by following people they want to work with and applying to the jobs that they post) have a much lower rejection rate.
You’ve linked to some EA Forum comment sandwiched dead in the middle of a really long thread, which itself links only to some unverified Twitter account with only 418 followers.
This is like whispering in the wind and expecting the wind to carry your speech down a mile, then blaming people in the town a mile away for not responding to your whisper.
Why are you surprised that nobody contacted you? How is this example in any way rebutting the post?
Sure, “hiring managers being bad at marketing is the bottleneck, not funding” is at least partially true. It still implies that if you happen to stumble across a poorly advertised position, you shouldn’t expect the acceptance rate to be low!
“Poor advertising” would imply that you stuck official-looking posters of your job offer in the wrong places, like inside alleyways.
But posting your job offer on a Twitter profile that looks like one of a million bot accounts is actually more the equivalent of leaving unmarked USB sticks in public restrooms and expecting people to plug them into their computers.
Sure, not the metaphor I would use but I broadly agree that applicants who are willing to plug the metaphorical USB stick into their computer (e.g. by following people they want to work with and applying to the jobs that they post) have a much lower rejection rate.