[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":66},["ShallowReactive",2],{"/blog/why-your-job-posting-is-attracting-the-wrong-candi":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":53,"description":54,"extension":55,"image":56,"meta":57,"navigation":58,"path":59,"readTime":60,"seo":61,"seoTitle":62,"stem":63,"tag":64,"__hash__":65},"blog/blog/why-your-job-posting-is-attracting-the-wrong-candi.md","Why your job posting is attracting the wrong candidates — common mistakes CTOs make when writing engineering roles",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":49},"minimark",[9,13,16,19,22,25,28,31,34,37],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Why your job posting filters out the engineers you actually want.",[10,14,15],{},"The best engineers read your job description and close the tab. Not because they're not qualified — because nothing in it tells them why the role matters.",[10,17,18],{},"Most postings describe the team you already have. Stack. Years of experience. Degree. That's a mirror, not a magnet.",[10,20,21],{},"What a strong engineer is actually scanning for: 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁. Team size. What \"senior\" means here specifically. What the first 90 days look like. What's broken that they'd be hired to fix.",[10,23,24],{},"Without that, you attract people optimizing for title and compensation. The ones who care about the work self-select out before the first call.",[10,26,27],{},"The cost compounds fast. A bad-fit hire caught at month three costs you 9 months — the failed ramp, the re-open, the next candidate's runway. One vague job posting, three quarters gone.",[10,29,30],{},"Three rewrites that change who applies:\n→ Replace \"5+ years of experience\" with the actual decision this person will own.\n→ Replace \"fast-paced environment\" with your real shipping cadence — deploys per week, on-call rotation, how fast a PR gets reviewed.\n→ Replace \"passionate about technology\" with the specific system they'll rebuild, or the problem nobody else on the team has time for.",[10,32,33],{},"𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 is looking for a reason to apply — not a checklist to clear.",[35,36],"hr",{},[10,38,39],{},[40,41,42,43,48],"em",{},"If you're building a remote engineering team and want to attract developers who care about the work, VANTREXIS can help you find the right fit — ",[44,45,47],"a",{"href":46},"/contact","Book a discovery call",".",{"title":50,"searchDepth":51,"depth":51,"links":52},"",2,[],"2026-04-29","Vague job postings filter out top engineers — learn how writing with real context and specificity attracts better-fit candidates.","md","https://hcti.io/v1/image/019dd7d2-e707-7af0-81e0-6009bb80af4d",{},true,"/blog/why-your-job-posting-is-attracting-the-wrong-candi","2 min read",{"title":5,"description":54},"Engineering Job Posting Mistakes CTOs Make","blog/why-your-job-posting-is-attracting-the-wrong-candi","Leadership & Hiring","V9325MwvxjATYT1l-xrlNpNt3uWfgQZxVoEGZvBDgvY",1786649722053]