Sounds like you used the perfect hiring strategy—offering a salary low enough to get exactly one good applicant from the whole pool—and then were surprised that the ratio of good to bad applicants was near 0, which is an expected result of that strategy regardless of the pool. That’s why employers always complain that hiring is hard, even when there are throngs of people begging for jobs.
Maybe they should be thankful to the applicants who changed the requirements, because there was a good chance that they had misjudged the market and would get zero good applicants.
Sounds like you used the perfect hiring strategy—offering a salary low enough to get exactly one good applicant from the whole pool—and then were surprised that the ratio of good to bad applicants was near 0, which is an expected result of that strategy regardless of the pool. That’s why employers always complain that hiring is hard, even when there are throngs of people begging for jobs.
Maybe they should be thankful to the applicants who changed the requirements, because there was a good chance that they had misjudged the market and would get zero good applicants.