Arbitrary years-of-experience requirements on job postings are lazy and counterproductive
Bob Moesta · How to find work you love | Bob Moesta (Jobs-to-be-Done co-creator, author of "Job Moves”) · Feb 23, 2025 · at 1:09:50
Bob Moesta, co-creator of the Jobs-to-be-Done framework, explains how to write better job descriptions with Lenny Rachitsky.
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“They'll say five years experience. What I will tell you is that's one of the worst statements you can put on any job, like recruiting thing, because why five years? What is it about what this to me is a sign that you're lazy because you're saying, oh, you need to have five years experience for an entry level job... And so my thing is, is what does somebody who has five year experience have and be more specific about what it is so you can actually understand, because there might be somebody with three years experience, Who's perfect, but they're not even going to apply because you put five years on there.”
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