It's short term because you will filter out intelligent and experienced candidates simply because they have happened to not use <x> extensively in their career. It's short term because such a candidate will have used a plethora of other things and would likely come in with a fresh perspective given their experience. It just might take them slightly longer to ramp up on the language and its associated tooling and ecosystem.
I live in a small town. When I hired a developer locally, I basically posted it as:
* 2-3 years in Vue, React, Angular, or any modern JS framework
When I posted it for remote only I advertised
* 2-3 years of Vue experience
There are _SO_ many applicants for a remote job (1000s), that I can be picky. So I will cut to the 500 that have the language I want, vs a slog through 5,000 that can maybe someday do what I want.
When you run a business and hire, you can totally do it different.
As an employer I totally get you. I don't think that most people get that your goal is to reduce the number of interviews by any filter necessary. You could limit by height and you would still get too many applicants.
Once you are not filtering for location, other filters are necessary. You can't interview 1000 people.
I totally get that from an employee perspective, skills and domain knowledge are valuable and transferable. They absolutely would be perfect for your position. Vue experience is arbitrarily irrelevant.
What they don't get us that you don't want to interview 1000 people to find the "best one". You want to interview 5, and pick the best of those.
The trick (for hopefuls) is being one of the 5. -thats- the problem they have to creatively solve. Relying on your CV is the -least possible way of standing out-.
So I say this to all you bright folks looking for work - show some creativity, do something different, make my hiring easy. You can be great? Cool - prove it. Because there are thousands in line with you, and a CV is the least you can do.
Then you have to rely on getting the job by other means than sending your CV. In other words networking.
Personally I don't apply to public job listings any more, even when I match all requirements. They are a waste of everyone's time. But networking has its limits.
It kinda depends on the candidate. Someone who already has experience may not stick around long because they aren't learning new skills, where as someone who isn't familiar with a particular technology will have added satisfaction and reason to stay from developing mastery of a new tech
