Why I hate the job market, part 23,523.35

[firecat]

Senior Writer
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Qualifications: A nearly sociopathic desire for creating an audience
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Comments

[maize]

I was recently asked to post a job ad that contained as a qualification "Empathy with a creative and technical environment." I got them to strike that line. Sadly, it was one of about 50 totally off-the-wall (and often unreasonable) lines. :/

[firecat]

"Empathy with a creative and technical environment."

What does that even mean? Although I like the idea of general empathy as a job requirement. (But how would you test it? Leave the interviewee in a room with sad puppies?)

[ironed_orchid]

I might be okay with a room full of puppies halfway through an interview.

[snippy]

As a person who is looking for a new job, what does that even mean? Alternatively, what does it mean to not have "empathy with..." etc.? Sounds like they had a bad employee and they're trying to write the job ad to prevent that kind of person from applying, but it's really better handled in an interview process.

[firecat]

As someone pointed out on the LJ version of this post, sociopathy and audiences aren't things that generally go together.