• @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    You are looking at job applications from the wrong perspective. You are seeing the job description and seeing minimum requirements, when in 90% they are describing the ideal candidate that will probably never show up.

    And I want to emphasise, you shouldn’t lie, you shouldn’t pad your résumé, but you should also not volunteer to testify against yourself.

    • snooggums
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      154 months ago

      Yes, minimum requirements are not actually minimum requirements. So silly for people taking things literally.

      • @marcos@lemmy.world
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        14 months ago

        People here expecting a bureaucracy to behave not only like a person, but like a honest and transparent person with simple and plainly stated goals…

      • @ArbiterXero@lemmy.world
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        04 months ago

        They’re not usually labeled “minimum requirements”

        That may be what you’re interpreting, but they’re usually titled “ideal applicants will have the following” which isn’t the same thing

        It feels like the same thing to people with rigid views on the world, but they are not the same.