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AntiPattern: Bore People to Death With Your Job Ads

Monday, July 31st, 2006

A common piece of advice to job seekers is: Don’t focus your resume and cover letter on what you want; focus on how you offer what the hiring company wants. This advice also applies in reverse to a hiring company writing a job ad, but in practice, it’s almost never followed, which is why this ad for a position at the Irvine Public Schools Foundation (IPSF) jumped out at me:

(Read the rest of the article here: http://eppsnet.com/2006/05/antipattern-bore-people-to-death-with-your-job-ads)