Job Descriptions

Well, it's certainly been a while since I've posted something here. I'm sure all zero of my readers have been starving for more vents and social criticism from yours truly. I guess I've been starved from spewing them...and thus, I type.

It should be no real news to folks that the economy is not improving, and joblessness is still really really bad. Anyone in the market for a stable and reasonably lucrative gig certainly has their work cut out for them. As if the market wasn't saturated enough, employers I've noticed still continue to pour kerosine on the fire by posting some of the most ridiculous job descriptions and compensations packages attached to them.

It's like this....if everyone is starving, don't make plain rice even more impossible to get your hands on. These HR dicks are still posting job descriptions that require "ten years of identical experience, must have A, B, C, D, E...and (you guessed it) F skills, and experience in "this miscroscopic facet of our industry which goes by an abbreviation that only 2% of the planet knows what it is".
Oh and by the way.........we're gonna say that compensation is competitive, but really we've got a budget of $35,000-$38,000 to pay you to do this. What's that you ask? How am I gonna live on that in a market like San Fransisco? Well...we don't know. You'll figure it out.

This is beyond frustrating and either speaks to how awful corporations are to think that they can douse an already saturated job market with ludicrous amounts of specificy which make the landing the gig on par with a postive DNA test, or it just speaks to how actually awful our economy really is right now. It's the same shit over and over.

Here's the good news though. At least you get to spend roughly 30 minutes applying online before you send your resume into friggin' NOWHEREVILLE!!

A quick lesson for new college graduates: either stay put in the family business if you're lucky enough to be born into one, or start rubbing shoulders with anyone and everyone who has a business, because apparently you're not getting a foot in the door to anyplace without a resume that's about as unique and obscure as a lunar eclipse!!