Purple Squirrel jobs
Purple Squirrel jobs
(OP)
Heard on NPR a story about companies posting jobs with ridiculous requirements that would be impossible to find.
The trade name is apparently a "purple squirrel" as in company A is looking for a purple squirrel.
The main feature is that the company really doesn't need the person, they are just fishing for this ideal in case it shows up.
Take away lesson is there is no need to really apply to these jobs or waste your time on them.
Jobs posted for more than a year with outlandish requirements aren't for real.
When will the economy pick up so real need materializes.
The trade name is apparently a "purple squirrel" as in company A is looking for a purple squirrel.
The main feature is that the company really doesn't need the person, they are just fishing for this ideal in case it shows up.
Take away lesson is there is no need to really apply to these jobs or waste your time on them.
Jobs posted for more than a year with outlandish requirements aren't for real.
When will the economy pick up so real need materializes.





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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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The economy is squirrely too.
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
http://mmcengineering.tripod.com
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They do go through the same motions as if they had several people apply. The phone interview, and formal interview, and so forth, even for the one person that did apply.
Most of these positions are listed as hard to fill, and they don't expect to find an ideal candidate. Just someone who can do the job.
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And, companies that advertise for purple squirrels will eventually find someone - - - who's a little squirrely.
If you advertise for a person who has extensive experience in several different unrelated technical disciplines (i.e. RF, embedded systems, FPGA programming, switch-mode power, UL products) you will eventually find a liar with an inflated resume.
If you stress "motivated", "high-energy drive", "focused on results" to work in a "fast paced environment", your likely only to end up with someone with a cocaine addiction.
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Actually this looks like the same boiler plate as "can walk on water", "able to leep tall building in a single bound", "more powerful than a speeding locomative", and "faster than speeding bullet"
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I get the impression these outrageous requirements are posted because the department heads already know who they want to promote internally but HR require the position to be advertised externally.
Designer of machine tools - user of modified screws
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No wonder domestic violence is up.
The problem is when these people become managers, they hand select the people they want to work for them, and systematly run everybody else off. Which leaves a bunch of yes men no smarter than the manager who hired them.
That is a big problem in many organazitions, departments, goverments, etc. All talk, and not much action.
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Not that I am in any way bitter.
Regards,
SNORGY.
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- Steve
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Where I insist we are the few that really do live in the real world.
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Looks like the job has been filled.
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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B.E.
The good engineer does not need to memorize every formula; he just needs to know where he can find them when he needs them. Old professor
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Maui
www.EngineeringMetallurgy.com
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http://www.enterprisenews.com/news/state_news/x180...
Maui
www.EngineeringMetallurgy.com