Every Online Job Posting Ever

Job hunting can really crush your spirits, especially when you've put in time getting a degree, effort learning relevant skills and energy working for years only to find you lack a degree in forklift operation.

It seems like most employers are looking for special skills these days, and even entry level jobs want multilingual applicants with five years of experience, which just isn't working.

So let's all do like the guy in this comic by Jacob Andrews and revolt against the job market...until we find a job that accepts our questionable resume as truth!

-Via CollegeHumor


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I remember seeing a web design job where they insisted the (entry level) web wrangler be 'fluent in HTML-5'... when HTML-5 had only launched a month or so prior to the job listing...
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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.
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The one I like that I see a lot of is: "Required: Five years experience in [some programming language that was launched two years ago]."

HR people say that requirements are more like a "wish list," and my husband says he's applied for jobs that he wasn't qualified for all his life, and got many of them. So apply anyway!
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