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Do the job requirements really need to list ms excel and office three times?
by snowwindwaves 7y ago
Do the job requirements really need to list ms excel and office three times?
- gumby 7y ago"What I tell you three times is true" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hunting_of_the_Snark https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hunting_of_the_Snark
- anilakar 7y agoYou better know your pivot tables, son.
- audiometry 7y agoAnd you need to be a "self starter"....
- Loughla 7y agoI hate those HR phrases for reasons that I believe are my own, maybe others share them. Sure, it's a meaningless phrase and no one is going to say, "I'm not a self-starter, I hate figuring out what to do with my time I wish someone would just hand me a list of things". Or maybe very few people are going to do that. What upsets me the most about phrases like 'self-starter' or 'motivated' or all that other HR shit, is that somewhere, someone (or more likely several someones) sat in a room and decided, consciously, that if they didn't say those words, that if they didn't flat out state that they wanted a self-starter, then the outcome would logically be they would only get lazy applicants. Phrases like that are treating the world like it is full of people who would swallow their own socks, on accident, if only we were given the chance.
- carlmr 7y ago>Phrases like that are treating the world like it is full of people who would swallow their own socks, on accident, if only we were given the chance. I'm guessing those people went into HR and are projecting.
- ncmncm 7y agoThere are lots of places where self-starters are absolutely not wanted. "We'll tell you what to do next, and if we don't, you'll sit and wait until we do." Self-starters are boat-rockers and troublemakers, and generate dissatisfaction among the other, obedient, personnel, and management. This is not to say that places advertising for self-starters actually want any, or would know what to do if they ever got one.