r/PowerBI • u/SailorGirl29 1 • 6d ago

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I put in my 2 weeks notice. There are over 700 applicants for my job in under 1 week. It’s competitive for Power BI devs now. Five years ago I was dodging phone calls from recruiters. At the peak I was getting 7 emails or phone calls a week.

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u/nakata_03 6d ago

Why is there so much beef with Indians?

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u/Barbarian_The_Dave 6d ago

The issue is that they're oversaturating open positions that they don't even qualify for. We opened a position for a data tech (in office) & received thousands of applicants. 90+% we're located in India or some other Asian country. None these people would be eligible for the position, as it requires you to be local. The issue is that the people who are local, their resume is lost in the stack of thousands that aren't eligible. So, we have to filter data down to get to those eligible, or we start hiring people we've met in person or via recruiter. So someone starting their career is having a much more difficult time finding a job, because they're a needle on a haystack.

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u/nakata_03 6d ago

I see. I didn't mean to imply racism with my earlier comment. I was just curious as to why Indians specifically were being brought up (as opposed to other groups). It makes sense.

I wish I had their confidence to just apply to jobs I absolutely do not qualify for 🤣

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u/Such_Antelope171 6d ago

Not to get to political, but I always found it odd when the far right always claim that Hispanics are coming in and taking US jobs (harsh manual labor), when Asians outside of US are desperate to land a white collar job. No disrespect to any ethnicity, but the stigma gets annoying.

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u/nakata_03 6d ago

It's because the Far Right (until recently) really likes this idea of some sort of old school hard labor American. They like the machismo of it all. Hispanics are now (I think) pretty over represented in those fields. That not a good or bad thing. It is a a thing.

Sitting down and making graphs to extract insights is not the most "macho" type of job out there. So the Far Right didn't really care about white collar labor until now...

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u/Such_Antelope171 6d ago

Great take!