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I seriously doubt hiring managers are actually "blindly copypastaing acronyms" unless they are hiring for a role for which they have previously written similar/
by mickeyp 14y ago
I seriously doubt hiring managers are actually "blindly copypastaing acronyms" unless they are hiring for a role for which they have previously written similar/identical a job ad.
A much, much more likely scenario -- and this I have observed first-hand many times -- is that BigCorp used to have Bob on staff, until Bob realised he was worth more and left; subsequently, the hiring managers assess what exactly it was Bob was hired to do (Cobol) and what he actually did (something like the above) and decided to include the former and a carbon copy match of every niche, technology, domain and specialist skillset Bob had.
Why?
Because they want another Bob, of course! It's unlikely such a person exist and, more likely, the ones who do charge out the yazoo for their skills.
- kaarlo_n 14y ago> Why? > > Because they want another Bob, of course! This happened to me at my previous job. My manager asked me to write the skills section for the advertisement of my replacement. It ended up being a mish-mash of the old job ad, some of my skills, and some new ones like "BI" and "text files"!
- adrianhoward 14y agoBecause they want another Bob, of course! It's unlikely such a person exist and, more likely, the ones who do charge out the yazoo for their skills. And even if you can find one another Bob is almost certainly not what they actually want http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4094990 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4094990