Job application reassurance?

[roseroseanne]

I’ve applied for a job I’m well suited for - qualified, four years experience (good enough for this particular role), in the same sector I’m currently working in, and in a city I want to move to.

I have a lot of hope on it (which I hate but), it’s been advertised since Friday and it’s been paid to be promoted on LinkedIn and there’s been 71 applicants. That’s not a crazy amount is it?

LinkedIn notoriously over reports the number of applicants. They count the people that hit the apply now button just to see what the role involves and is looking for. I’ve done it a lot but I know for a fact that I have never applied for a job through LinkedIn. So it will be lower, possibly much lower, than 71.

71 doesn’t seem like a lot to me. Also I am doing some recruitment atm and we asked six people for interview and only two of them took us up on it. I never ceased to be amazed by the amount of people who apply for jobs they don’t actually seem interested in.

Thanks both, it’s just this job came out of nowhere at the exact right time, I want it so badly (hope they can’t smell desperation 😂) and you’ve both made me feel better.

I think it’s such a complicated issue. When it comes to it, people realise they don’t always want to move on. Or they apply for every job going out of desperation to secure something and then realise it’s not suitable for the. We recruited in the spring and had an avalanche of applicants. We shortlisted 8, and two dropped out due to receiving offers. One was very last minute.

It is worse in education. Teachers will often take the first offer, and either decline or just not turn up. It shocks me as a governor that they don’t think it through because they may apply to them another time but I guess with such a staff shortage that it doesn’t matter.