The misleading or unneeded credentials on job postings is a huge problem. I've seen job posts for social media managers that ask for an MBA. I've seen jobs for

The misleading or unneeded credentials on job postings is a huge problem. I've seen job posts for social media managers that ask for an MBA. I've seen jobs for blog post editors that ask for an MBA. Actually I think ever job that isn't Software Engineer might very now ask for an MBA. FWIW my Fiancée specializes in researching technology and social trends in the Asia Pacific (APAC) market. She's authored multiple industry leading reports on the region, and has collected some really great work experience. Any company that wants to launch or move into the APAC market should be eager to talk to her (and based on China's growing GDP I'd advise looking in that direction!), but every job she applies for wants an MBA, and she cannot get past resume screening. Of course skills listing in technical job postings for non-Tech companies have a similar problem. Whenever you have someone who is not within an industry filtering resumes (or even worse, you are trying to make a machine do it), problems like this start to appear. Oddly enough the increasing use of useless machine resume filters have made head hunters all the more valuable. I hand them a job description that explicitly says "has 2 out of these 7 skills" and I give some very broad skills. E.g. if I am hiring for an embedded engineer, I'll include skills like "worked on portable games such as GBA or Nintendo DS". This has ended up solving 90% of my recruiting problem.