#118 – Qualifications
Posted on May 18, 2011 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
One of the more frustrating things I run into when looking for work is people only wanting someone that has already done the exact job they are hiring for.
“Designer needed. Must know Photoshop and have general office computer skills. Looking for a self starter with a clean sense of design. Must have a minimum of 8 years experience designing for an art director with the first name of ‘Alfred’ while sitting at a northwest facing desk on the second floor of a 5 story office building with an average ambient temperature of 73 degrees fahrenheit.”
Of course 1 week after you are hired, Alfred retires and your department is moved to the fourth floor anyway.
Tags: children, shark, work
and that’s just the entry level position.
Well, if they could, some companies would only hire at most 20 year olds with at least 30 years of experience. 😛
I’ve never made it above the ground floor… That’s the problem of working in one story buildings. It’s the same thing over and over again.
You know how you’ll glance at something and it kinda smears different parts together? I glanced at the ‘related comics’ above and ‘Surf City’ and ‘Small Talk’ merged together to become ‘Smurf Talk’. Now I’m not going to be able to get that out of my head all day.
“I’m sorry sir, your qualifications do not meet our requirements: Upon inspection of your former job, it seems that the average ambient temperature was only 72.999… °F.”
I like children, but I could never eat a whole one.
I match those qualifications exactly. Please send me the listing. I need a new job.
Someone was just telling me the other day that such postings are often written to weed out other people. For example, a professor wants to keep a postdoc after the postdoc has finished his contract. So the professor creates an opening for the postdoc. According to university policies, all jobs must be made available to the public. Since the job was made for a specific person, to discourage other applicants, they wrote a ridiculously specific list of requirements, then gave only 5 days for applicants to apply or something.
Only, they can’t write: “Must be 5ft 8in, Red haired, 36-25-35.”
He got a masters in education? what on earth was he planning to do with that? “Mr. Shark your my faviorte teacher!” “Nomnom nom. billy you could use some salt.”