<story><title>Why is it taking longer and longer to fill open jobs?</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2015/6/20/8815561/job-vacancy-duration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>resoluteteeth</author><text>I think another interpretation is that it&amp;#x27;s become easier for companies to keep jobs &amp;quot;open&amp;quot; and collecting applicants without really having to put in effort to find people. Or, to put it another way, the idea of an &amp;quot;open job&amp;quot; has become meaningless, if it was ever meaningful in the first place.&lt;p&gt;As a metaphor, we can imagine many people wanting to buy apples, but not being willing to pay the 1$ the supermarket will charge. They could create an &amp;quot;apple opening&amp;quot;, posting on an apple selling site looking for people who are willing to sell them apples with certain qualities for a given price that depends on the individual, for example 5 cents. Then, we could poll consumers to see how many have apple openings. Perhaps we could find millions of such unfilled openings, but would this tell us anything about trends in the quality of apples or actual apple consumption?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Too</author><text>The same is happening with real estate, people have started to post apartments &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;soon for sale&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; without any starting price or fixed bidding time, years before they are ready to move, just in case some crazy guy happens to drop by and put a bid that is higher than the actual market value. The cost of advertising to a wide audience has simply dropped so much that you can constantly keep fishing even though you don&amp;#x27;t have anything actually ready, and to beat the competition everybody has to do it, its just a race to the bottom. MVPs are also a good anlogy to this, present a half working website just to see if people are interested and if enough are you can continue with development.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why is it taking longer and longer to fill open jobs?</title><url>http://www.vox.com/2015/6/20/8815561/job-vacancy-duration</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>resoluteteeth</author><text>I think another interpretation is that it&amp;#x27;s become easier for companies to keep jobs &amp;quot;open&amp;quot; and collecting applicants without really having to put in effort to find people. Or, to put it another way, the idea of an &amp;quot;open job&amp;quot; has become meaningless, if it was ever meaningful in the first place.&lt;p&gt;As a metaphor, we can imagine many people wanting to buy apples, but not being willing to pay the 1$ the supermarket will charge. They could create an &amp;quot;apple opening&amp;quot;, posting on an apple selling site looking for people who are willing to sell them apples with certain qualities for a given price that depends on the individual, for example 5 cents. Then, we could poll consumers to see how many have apple openings. Perhaps we could find millions of such unfilled openings, but would this tell us anything about trends in the quality of apples or actual apple consumption?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hebdo</author><text>A relevant read: Whaddaya Mean, You Can&amp;#x27;t Find Programmers?
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