I've been casually looking at job boards and I'm mildly put shocked by what I'm seeing. One posting today wanted a single person to run their social media, manage their email marketing, analyze campaign data, handle customer support tickets, train new hires, and manage a small team. That's at least three different jobs. Plus they wanted five years of experience in each area. Plus a degree. Plus full time in office. The salary range was $65k to $75k. Are companies actually finding people willing to do all of this, or are they just posting fantasy descriptions and wondering why they can't fill them? Anyone else noticing this inflation of expectations?
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If you used AI you would realize none of those duties are a full-time job.
@aw
There are floaters who have been here for a very long time. These floaters also hire floaters for the very same reasons that you articulate.
No they’re not finding people that meet these “requirements”. That’s either their excuse to offshore or they’re hiring someone they know anyway, because the post is deliberately created to make it impossible to fill based on qualifications alone.
The answer is yes they are finding people to fill the role.
The problem is that all these new hires are unqualified and take the job just to ride it for awhile, they don’t want a career here.
They intend to ride it out as long as possible. If they are good at B S-ing then they can usually stick around 2-3 years because mgmt doesn’t target new hires for layoffs.
It also gives mgmt a built in excuse for why their teams aren’t performing adequately… x number of turnover, new employee onboarding, yada, yada.
I am SO tired of working with floaters. We all come across them. They talk and talk on calls, usually repeating what someone else already said just with different words. They are liked because “they’re so nice”. They never produce or contribute anything meaningful unless taking credit for someone else’s suggestions.
I’d be nicer if I didn’t have any stress and just floated about my day.
Its quite entertaining when most teams are being restricted in where they can hire out of, you know the 3 growth locations only with trash candidates, yet NYC has tons of listings, MA , CT and other locations so why are we restricting some but not others
I think I heard that Eliza was resigning from BNY and taking this position!