Job hunting can really crush your spirits, especially when you've put in time getting a degree, effort learning relevant skills and energy working for years only to find you lack a degree in forklift operation.
It seems like most employers are looking for special skills these days, and even entry level jobs want multilingual applicants with five years of experience, which just isn't working.
So let's all do like the guy in this comic by Jacob Andrews and revolt against the job market...until we find a job that accepts our questionable resume as truth!
-Via CollegeHumor
http://jezebel.com/5408568/men-take-job-requirements-as-suggestions-women-take-them-as-gospel
It can get frustrating to wade through a pile of resumes to sort out those that don't meet the basic job requirements. It makes me doubt the applicants' reading comprehension skills.
HR people say that requirements are more like a "wish list," and my husband says he's applied for jobs that he wasn't qualified for all his life, and got many of them. So apply anyway!