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"The jobs opening up include a requirement to know all these skills in addition to everything else."

I've been casually looking at job postings and sometimes wonder what drugs the job poster is on when writing job requirements.

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I you really want to have fun, just look at the job posting for your own role in the organization. Then, you can really compare stuff.

Funny story: Once upon a time, I got promoted, and we needed to backfill my (old) position. They proceeded to post a job description that 1. I might not have qualified for, and 2. I never would have applied for.

That's partially because job postings are an SEO play, so that long list of requirements is more about trying to get as many eyeballs as possible on the page. Job postings used to be as short as possible because you were paying per line in the newspaper. Search engines changed that.

That doesn't make sense. They can just move all those requirements from 'required' to 'desired' section and get the same SEO out of it.

Small companies looking for a qualified person will bother. Large companies with hundreds of applicants won’t bother.

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