This varies from industry to industry. In libraries, job descriptions are usually literal. "Required" means required and "optional" means optional.
It can get frustrating to wade through a pile of resumes to sort out those that don't meet the basic job requirements. It makes me doubt the applicants' reading comprehension skills.
I have only one commissioned work of art. I asked a comic book artist to draw two of his characters in Star Trek: The Next Generation uniforms. He found it a bit odd, but didn't object.
It can get frustrating to wade through a pile of resumes to sort out those that don't meet the basic job requirements. It makes me doubt the applicants' reading comprehension skills.
They key word is "yet." Tom is playing a dangerous game.