I agree there’s a tradeoff. We’re pretty unsure about how much to encourage people towards these roles at the margin.
We’ve seen cases of people on the other side who said they didn’t apply for these roles since they assumed they were too competitive, but were found later and ended up doing really well. We’ve seen lots of cases of people who ended up getting the job but said they almost didn’t apply for the same reason. I suspect we still miss a lot of great applicants.
To avoid this, we could encourage more people to apply, but that will result in more people getting demotivated when they don’t succeed. Finding the ideal balancing point seems really hard.
I do agree with Khorton below, though, that we should try to find more “win-win” approaches, such as encouraging people to consider and find out if there might be a good role for them, and providing people with clearer criteria.
I agree there’s a tradeoff. We’re pretty unsure about how much to encourage people towards these roles at the margin.
We’ve seen cases of people on the other side who said they didn’t apply for these roles since they assumed they were too competitive, but were found later and ended up doing really well. We’ve seen lots of cases of people who ended up getting the job but said they almost didn’t apply for the same reason. I suspect we still miss a lot of great applicants.
To avoid this, we could encourage more people to apply, but that will result in more people getting demotivated when they don’t succeed. Finding the ideal balancing point seems really hard.
I do agree with Khorton below, though, that we should try to find more “win-win” approaches, such as encouraging people to consider and find out if there might be a good role for them, and providing people with clearer criteria.