What's the Worst Job Posting You've Seen?

Kickstart70 asks: "Recently myself and a number of friends of mine who work or worked in IT jobs have been remarking on absolutely horrible job postings for low-level IT jobs paying small change. It seems the headhunters and employers are still wanting knowledge in everything, at least one degree but preferably two, and want to keep employees on minimal wages (in the job listing linked, the wage is in Canadian dollars). Is this common everywhere? What's the worst job posting you have seen?"

Comments

On-Call Outlook/Exchange Admin

[BigRedFish]

As soon as I see 'Administer Outlook/Exchange' and 'on-call 24/7', I don't care how much it pays.

Besides, I don't have 5 years experience with 2K/XP. I don't know if they do that to weed out liars or what, but it's a big red flag to me that the employer is reality-challenged.

'Knowing' isn't enough...

[DrCode]

When I was job-searching last year, it wasn't enough to know a language or API. With all the free tools available, most of us can teach ourselves pretty much anything necessary in a matter of weeks. But most of the abusive job ads had specific requirements for years of paid experience.

I recall going through one ad, getting excited because I really did have the experience they wanted (Unix, C++, etc.). But then I came to the deal-killer, in all caps: "APPLICANT MUST HAVE THIS EXPERIENCE WORKING FOR A MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SUPPLIER."

Re:Real posting...

[Zeinfeld]

Requiring SAT scores is complete bullshit. How you did on some test in high school is no indicator whatsoever of how you perform on the job at age 30.

IQ tests mean very little at any point. The bulk of the 'research' done to support the use of IQ tests has been either tainted with eugenic/racist theories or outright fraudulent. Stephen Jay Gould did the cannonical debunking of them in 'the mismeasure of man'.

When I was at high school I posted some IQ scores that were well outside the standard range - 160 to 180. That is because the school was a selective school and we had a weekly coaching session on the exam to get into the upper school. My scores went from upper decile to 2 to 3 standard deviations above the mean. All through coaching and practice.

Then when we got into the upper school we were told that research shows that the results are innate. I said the results had to be faulty since the entitre class of us had shown the same type of improvement (not necessarily as extreeme). Thats the point where I discovered that English public schools can hire some awfully stupid geography teachers. The science staff backed me up though.

Odd thing was that despite all that testing the school never picked up the fact I have a form of dyslexia.