In my opinion, it is pretty easy to hire if you pay fairly and treat people with respect.
But I do get a lot of job offer emails that go straight to Trash:
- recruiters with an exciting opportunity but they don't mention the technologies or the compensation
- companies that want 10+ years of experience at $36k annually
- job board spam that just wants me to create an account inside their system
- mandatory "play coding game XY" to apply
Every company who makes one of those mistakes will feel like hiring is difficult, but it's mainly because they are doing it wrongly. When it's about firing employees, everyone is happy to use the free market as an excuse. But when it's about hiring employees, nobody seems to get the hint that the free market is telling them to stop being cheapskates ^_^
But I do get a lot of job offer emails that go straight to Trash:
- recruiters with an exciting opportunity but they don't mention the technologies or the compensation
- companies that want 10+ years of experience at $36k annually
- job board spam that just wants me to create an account inside their system
- mandatory "play coding game XY" to apply
Every company who makes one of those mistakes will feel like hiring is difficult, but it's mainly because they are doing it wrongly. When it's about firing employees, everyone is happy to use the free market as an excuse. But when it's about hiring employees, nobody seems to get the hint that the free market is telling them to stop being cheapskates ^_^