Overlooked Candidate Due to Insufficient Years of Experience Despite Relevant Skills and Achievements

[Kumar2106]

Describe the real-life Issue

Description

Many candidates who meet all the technical requirements and have a strong history of relevant achievements are being rejected because they do not meet the specified number of years of experience.

1. What is the Issue:

Despite their proven skills and successful project outcomes, the emphasis on years of experience overshadows their actual capabilities and contributions. This practice highlights a potential flaw in the hiring process that may overlook highly qualified candidates who can significantly contribute to the team and organization.

2. Affected Parties:

This issue is important because it can lead to missed opportunities for both candidates and companies. By focusing more on skills, achievements, and the potential value a candidate can bring, rather than strictly adhering to a years-of-experience requirement, we can create a more inclusive and effective hiring process.

3. Repetitive Nature:

The repetitive nature of emphasizing years of experience over actual skills and accomplishments results in the continual dismissal of capable candidates. This pattern reinforces outdated hiring practices and prevents the organization from benefiting from fresh perspectives and innovative solutions.

4. Impact:

This approach limits the talent pool, leading to missed opportunities for both candidates and companies. Companies may fail to acquire highly skilled individuals who could drive innovation and efficiency. Candidates, in turn, are denied opportunities to grow and contribute to organizations where they could make a significant impact.

5. What Counts as Contribution:

To create a fair hiring process, evaluate candidates based on skills, competencies, cultural fit, and potential for growth, rather than solely on years of experience. Use structured assessments, diverse interview panels, and thorough reference checks to ensure a holistic and unbiased evaluation.

Who has faced this issue?

A group of candidates.

I have read the CONTRIBUTING.md file

• Yes
• No

[cleancodecraft]

Ok all and all sounds good, now point 5 - this needs to be changed

Contributions means - contributions to resolving this issue, real life actions that help prevent this problem from happening. This means real life actions that prevent candidates' experience to be overlooked.

As explained in multiple places TechOpenSolve is about changing things not just about talking how shit things are. We need to formulate it in a way that we can do the most important part of TechOpenSolve - and that is to acknowledge contributions - actions made by others to resolve the problem that is outlined.

What I would list as contributions is something lore like:

• providing a more fair hiring process where multiple factors are evaluated , not just purely counting years of experience.

This way if there is a tech company, big or small or a hiring manager that does in fact provide fair hiring process - then we can list them as contributors.

Following that I propose the repo for this issue to be Hiring Process since it doesn't directly impact career growth, and the name of the issue to be made a bit shorter

[Kumar2106]

@cleancodecraft I am making the changes.

[esthersoftwaredev]

@Kumar2106 Looks good, just use this title -

Overlooking Candidates Due to 'Insufficient' Years of Experience

and then you can publish the issue in the

Hiring Process

repo

Approved 👍