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If this is the case, why do people put tech under the 'requirements' section, rather than the 'desired'?

Hiring managers, you are going to get what you ask for.




At least some of those are H1B posts to prove there's no one in the locality with seven years experience with Windows10. Some are also pencil whipping a HR checklist before hiring the bosses kid or the hand picked internal candidate. You want a CCIE and are offering $50K? No one applying is not necessarily seen as a bug.

At megacorps the relationship between the people writing reqs and the actual job are often rather strained.

I could never qualify for my own job req, and I work there. I got in via networking and portfolio. Seriously, HR lists specific versions of AS/400 software and the department doesn't even work that closely with the AS/400 group, ya know. In fact I think my AS/400 password expired, aged out so I need to regain access, although I really don't need it. People in my department "need" windows 8 experience but our desktops are win7? A+ certification preferred because everyone in my great-grand department requires it on paper? You listed the exact model number and firmware version of a specific spectrum analyzer from a company that is no longer in business under that name? Seriously?


See, this is a major dysfunction when combined with the unwillingness to give rejection reasons. How is one supposed to know when they get a form letter rejection if it was because this particular company is actually serious about their asinine "requirements"?


At the risk of sounding snarky: why do you need to know?




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