Timeline for Got invited to apply for a job for which I don't qualify. How should I take this?
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| Feb 4, 2023 at 7:01 | comment | added | gnasher729 | I watched where a company had hired a foreigner and got a complaint they should have hired a local citizen if anyone met the requirements. They took the guy, had him make a list of everything he had done in his working life, and that was the requirements. Nobody other than him met all the requirements. | |
| Jun 21, 2018 at 1:18 | comment | added | Zeus | Furthermore, I know of situations when a company wants to hire you, but is required (legally or otherwise) to advertise the job. Then they overstate the requirements in order to discourage other applicants. I've been there myself, and when I checked the requirements (after getting the job!) I freaked out. I would never have applied if I just came across it. | |
| Jun 20, 2018 at 18:33 | comment | added | Philip Schiff | although if it were a drastic mismatch, it'd be worth checking to make sure there wasn't a mixup somewhere. probably not the case here. | |
| Jun 19, 2018 at 13:19 | comment | added | SpoonMeiser | The last two paragraphs here, are "probably this" and "probably that" and don't add anything to the answer. But +1 for the rest of it (especially the headline) | |
| Jun 19, 2018 at 12:49 | comment | added | Cubic | @TeroLahtinen "All the time" rather than "always". Candidates who meet all of the utopic requirements exist and they sometimes even apply for these jobs, but obviously most people won't fill out the entire wishlist. | |
| Jun 19, 2018 at 5:50 | comment | added | Tero Lahtinen | "companies often end up hiring a candidate who doesn't meet every single requirement" s/often/always/ | |
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| Jun 18, 2018 at 19:07 | history | answered | Jared K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |