People Online Share Unrealistic Criteria Recruiters Set While Hiring Professionals

How many times have we looked at job opportunities online only to get dejected by the unrealistic expectations some employers set? How many times have we said to ourself ‘Humse na ho payega’ after we find a job that’s perfect for us only to see they need 150 years of experience? Rehne do, we all know the answer. *sigh*

People online are discussing such bizarre job criteria and expectations that some employers set during their hiring process. For example, this guy came across a job posting recently which demanded 4-years of experience on a web API framework that was created 1.5 years ago!

I saw a job post the other day. 👔

It required 4+ years of experience in FastAPI. 🤦

I couldn't apply as I only have 1.5+ years of experience since I created that thing. 😅

Maybe it's time to re-evaluate that "years of experience = skill level". ♻

— Sebastián Ramírez (@tiangolo) July 11, 2020

Soon, many others took to the comment section to share stories of the various pointless and funny expectations different employers they came across had! Have a look:

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— Arthur Mastropietro (@amcod3) July 11, 2020

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Required skills:
Must be fluent in every program language ever, even ones that don’t exist yet
Combined work history of 99 years
Every tech certification ever
Must have worked for NASA and gone to the moon, twice, Mars, once
Positive attitude

Unpaid internship, free coffee

— Joshua (@Joshuafairchild) July 11, 2020

3.

Last year I got rejected during a job interview for “not understanding” the concepts of a certain iOS library. What the interviewer didn’t know: I wrote that thing. I actually had a lot of fun during that interview 🤣

— Jens Ravens (@JensRavens) July 11, 2020

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— Patricia Muñoz (@fac_eas) July 12, 2020

5.

Kind of like entry level positions that say no training required we will train you, must have 4+ years experience.. hate that crap

— Wfprofessor (@ryan_hammond3) July 11, 2020

6.

I just remembered seeing this a couple of days ago 😅 this explain everything pic.twitter.com/0sl2vnEho6

— El Habbazi Jalal Eddine (@HabbaziJalal) July 12, 2020

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One of the many things wrong with job descriptions and employer expectations…. 🤦🏻‍♀️ https://t.co/WqboXlwjW3

— Liz Wessel (@lizwessel) July 11, 2020

8.

Many iOS developer positions say they want 7+ years experience in Swift. How are you going to say that when Swift was first released in 2014?

— Varun Shourie (@Varun__Shourie) July 11, 2020

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HR people should have 5 years experience and a master's before writing their first job posting.

— SibLiant (@SibLiant) July 11, 2020

10.

Requires 10 years of experience with Windows Server 2019

— Kohi and Cambria (@kohiyote) July 12, 2020

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Yeah, I have 25 years of experience eating food and I still bite my tongue and inhale macaroni on, like, a REGULAR basis. So experience and skill don't always correlate.

— CJ Siapco (@CJsiapco) July 12, 2020

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Come and see something🤣🤣.

This is the same thing I mentioned on my thread the other day – why are recruiters or HR writing unrealistic Job Specification & Job Description? https://t.co/iAowlph5cP

— Bren 👣 (@MomentsWithBren) July 12, 2020

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Job market be like 😂😂 https://t.co/TBVHmC6gYP

— Mariia Kriuchok (@Mariia_Doc) July 11, 2020

Have you ever experienced bizarre expectations from employers? Tell us!