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The Mobley vs Workday suit is heating up and could have implications for the use of AI in candidate screening. A great TL; DR here from Miranda Sharpnack.
Target continues to struggle and a lot of this is being attributed to their rolling back of DEI. Personally, I haven’t completely abandoned Target, but I probably go once a month vs 3-4x a week as I used to. I guess it’s a good lesson for companies that turning on the people who support you isn’t going to make sales.
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In your opinion, is it a good idea to apply for roles where you do not meet the experience criteria? For example, I was checking out Zapier's career page and found an SRE role that feels like something I'd love to grow into although I don't check all the boxes just yet. The role mentions a minimum of 2 years of experience but I'm just a new grad engineer right now. I understand that hiring teams get tons of applications so I don't want to unnecessarily add to their burden by sending an application that doesn't fully fit the bill. I'd love to know whats your general take on this
As with anything, my general answer is “it depends”.
When it comes to years of experience, I would think about what 2 years is really asking for - that you have some early career experience in the field. If you just graduated and have no experience, I’d say it’s unlikely you’d be a viable candidate - especially for a remote role. What might make you MORE competitive:
you meet all of the other criteria perfectly
you have some experience not captured in years of full-time experience (like highly relevant internships/part-time jobs, a graduate degree, etc.)
You have some other knowledge or achievements that may be non-traditional but make you uniquely qualified (like you’re a founder and you’ve done SRE work for your own business) or you invented some tool used or whatever (sorry, I don’t know much about site reliability to give a better example!)
In general, I’d say it’s OK to be off on years a bit - 4 years of experience for a role asking for 5+ is fine for example. But 2 years for a role asking for 5 would be a stretch.
Other considerations:
is this a more niche role where they have a more limited candidate pool?
might something like location or work hours make the role one that would be harder to fill?
are there other unique attributes you bring that could make them consider someone without all the qualifications (like product knowledge, experience with tech stack, etc.)
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