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by jcl 6250 days ago
Unless the job is highly specific, it may not be a bad idea to leave the languages in the posting. The problem with many job searches is the abundance, not lack, of candidates, and languages serve as a useful first-pass filter on both candidates and jobs.
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Obviously, I disagree. Such a filter will exclude precisely the wrong candidates. That is my argument in the article.