Submission + - Employers Advertising for Candidates with Degrees they Do Not Need to do the Job (thestreet.com)
pefisher writes: A lot of us on Slashdot have noticed that potential employers advertise for things they don't need. To the point that sometimes they even ask for things that don't exist. Like asking for ten years of experience in a technology that has only just been introduced. It's frustrating because it makes you wonder "what's this employers real game?" Do they just want to say they advertised for the position, or are they really so immensely stupid, so disconnected from their own needs, that they think they are actually asking for something they can have? Which makes spending the time to apply for the job seem somewhat silly. Here is a Harvard Study that addresses one particular angle of this. It doesn't answer any questions, but it does prove that you aren't crazy. And it quantifies the craziness. (Admittedly the article is on The Street, which can be a sea of crap. But this article struck me as worth reading.)
