Obscure job listings [rant]
I do laugh sometimes when I look through the job search sites and see that every agency advertisement is looking for 10+ years of experience usually in a very obscure specialisation of an unpopular profession. I often wonder if they can find anyone at all who is an expert in, for example “Wear and stress testing on grade B, type 33 pump sprockets in redox environments” in Australasia, my guess is zero (probably in part because anyone who encountered the same problem has solved it and since move on with their lives).
Is it any wonder people lie or misrepresent themselves on their CVs now? Companies expectations have got ever more unrealistic and the market has adapted by realising HR departments and recruitment agencies really have no idea who they are looking for and couldn’t tell the difference if you lied about being an expert in type 33 sprockets anyway :lol:. |
Re: Obscure job listings [rant]
I don't know.
If you fibbed about being a plumber and then couldn't plumb , I think a leak or two might appear. |
Re: Obscure job listings [rant]
Three and a half years since I fixed a plane, and got an email yesterday offering me long term work in Blenheim for the RNZAF.
Weird:huh: |
Re: Obscure job listings [rant]
Originally Posted by Charismatic
(Post 8927721)
I do laugh sometimes when I look through the job search sites and see that every agency advertisement is looking for 10+ years of experience usually in a very obscure specialisation of an unpopular profession. I often wonder if they can find anyone at all who is an expert in, for example “Wear and stress testing on grade B, type 33 pump sprockets in redox environments” in Australasia, my guess is zero (probably in part because anyone who encountered the same problem has solved it and since move on with their lives).
Is it any wonder people lie or misrepresent themselves on their CVs now? Companies expectations have got ever more unrealistic and the market has adapted by realising HR departments and recruitment agencies really have no idea who they are looking for and couldn’t tell the difference if you lied about being an expert in type 33 sprockets anyway :lol:. |
Re: Obscure job listings [rant]
Originally Posted by hazeandsteve
(Post 8928786)
Three and a half years since I fixed a plane, and got an email yesterday offering me long term work in Blenheim for the RNZAF.
Weird:huh: |
Re: Obscure job listings [rant]
Originally Posted by Charismatic
(Post 8927721)
I do laugh sometimes when I look through the job search sites and see that every agency advertisement is looking for 10+ years of experience usually in a very obscure specialisation of an unpopular profession. I often wonder if they can find anyone at all who is an expert in, for example “Wear and stress testing on grade B, type 33 pump sprockets in redox environments” in Australasia, my guess is zero (probably in part because anyone who encountered the same problem has solved it and since move on with their lives).
Is it any wonder people lie or misrepresent themselves on their CVs now? Companies expectations have got ever more unrealistic and the market has adapted by realising HR departments and recruitment agencies really have no idea who they are looking for and couldn’t tell the difference if you lied about being an expert in type 33 sprockets anyway :lol:. |
Re: Obscure job listings [rant]
Originally Posted by Charismatic
(Post 8927721)
I do laugh sometimes when I look through the job search sites and see that every agency advertisement is looking for 10+ years of experience usually in a very obscure specialisation of an unpopular profession. I often wonder if they can find anyone at all who is an expert in, for example “Wear and stress testing on grade B, type 33 pump sprockets in redox environments” in Australasia, my guess is zero (probably in part because anyone who encountered the same problem has solved it and since move on with their lives).
Is it any wonder people lie or misrepresent themselves on their CVs now? Companies expectations have got ever more unrealistic and the market has adapted by realising HR departments and recruitment agencies really have no idea who they are looking for and couldn’t tell the difference if you lied about being an expert in type 33 sprockets anyway :lol:. The years of useful non-marketable skills like surviving in a corporate environment, learning negotiation, working with difficult people, time management, self-organisation, effective multi-tasking etc. seem to be irrelevant in technical job hunting. WP |
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