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Katie Tanner, a human resource consultant in Utah, knew the job would be popular: It was fully remote, was at a tech company and required only three years of experience.
But she was still shocked by the response on LinkedIn. After 12 hours, 400 applications had been submitted. By 24 hours, there were 600. A few days later, there were more than 1,200, at which point she removed the post. Three months later, she’s still whittling down candidates.
“It’s crazy,” she said. “You just get inundated.”
The number of applications submitted on LinkedIn has…
