> They are either insanely broad or insanely specific, which I think is insanely short sighted since you will either get liars or narrow your search down to those with only the exact skills you are looking for while missing candidates with more generally applicable skills.

I'm starting to think that the reason the available candidate pool is viewed as being so poor is that the only people making it though the resume screening stage are the true unicorns and the bald-faced liars.

Edit: forgot a word.