Posterous: I went to etc., can I still work for you?

Re:Posterous: I went to etc., can I still work for you? by humanlever on Wednesday September 24, 2008 @11:54AM (#313642)

I'm the complete opposite. If I think a job looks interesting and see that the company has elected to limit their candidate pool by putting a lame qualifier like, "a degree from a top-tier university," I don't waste my time. It shows that the company is more concerned with how their employees are perceived than what they can accomplish. Pass.

I sometimes have similar reservations about companies that list arbitrary experience requirements too, especially when they're clearly just going off some industry norm. That's just me tho. YMMV.

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Re:Posterous: I went to etc., can I still work for you? by nostrademons on Wednesday September 24, 2008 @12:04PM (#313657)

That's how I feel if, given an obviously qualified candidate, they then reject him.

But I try to give them the benefit of the doubt on the initial job application. They have to put something down, and as spez pointed out on the Reddit thread, it's an easy way of disqualifying people who like to complain instead of do something about it. It's an unfortunate filter that probably turns off a few well-qualified candidates, but nobody's perfect.

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