Evergreen jobs make attracting applicants more difficult and measuring recruiting efforts all but impossible.
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Evergreen jobs are convenient because they stay open. But job posts are technical documents, and advertising open roles is a technical process. Evergreen jobs make attracting applicants more difficult and measuring recruiting efforts all but impossible.
Evergreen jobs are hard to find on job boards
Job seekers use titles as search terms, and they search for industry-standard titles. That means titles that include words like ‘Guru’ or ‘Sensei’ are hard to find. Also, titles with ‘Senior’ in them can deter job seekers.
In a study of financial analyst titles, the Datapeople R&D team found that job titles including the word ‘Senior’ attracted fewer applicants on average. They attracted 29% fewer applicants overall, 39% fewer qualified applicants, and 27% fewer female applicants.
At the same time, job board search engines attempt to provide a good search experience. Part of that is showing new listings at the top of the page so job seekers don’t have to scroll down. Because they don’t close, evergreen jobs keep falling down the search results, making them harder to find. The longer they’re open, the harder they are to find.
Evergreen jobs can turn off applicants who don’t get a response
Candidates quickly tire of job boards full of ‘phantom’ jobs that aren’t really open, are only open for legal reasons, or seem tailored to a ‘unicorn’ candidate. Receiving no response or even a timeline of when to expect one can put job seekers off. If they don’t feel like a company is interested, they’ll turn to other companies.
Evergreen jobs wreck recruiting analytics
Two of the most important recruiting metrics are days live and time to fill. Days live shows how well job ads are performing, while time to fill tracks the total time it takes to fill a job. It’s impossible to measure either if a job never closes.
Recruiting analytics relies on full pipeline data and clear metrics for every stage of the hiring process. With those, companies can see not only how many women applied, for example, but how many applied, received an interview, and got an offer.
Because they stay open, evergreen jobs don’t offer an end-to-end view of each round of hiring. They can’t show how many applicants went through a particular hiring round or even whether a round resulted in a hire.
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