Job Posts That Feature Skills Attract More Applicants, According to LinkedIn Data

Job posts with skills in the requirements section are correlated with an 11% increase in the view-to-apply rate, compared with job posts that don’t list skills among the requirements.

…yet doesn’t this chafe against the current consensus TA / HR view that putting more skills in requirements is a bad thing because it leads to too many people erroneously self selecting out? Makes you wonder how many of the things we like to think are true are luxury beliefs which dominate our domain but do not reflect what normal people believe or how they behave. Testable hypothesis this one, so do an A/B on it.