[Gllug] job advert

[Alison Young]

tid wrote:
> more interesting is the requirement for "a sense of humour". How are
> they going to
> evaluate that and is it a show stopper if the candidate hasn't got one?

I've seen that kind of thing in adverts a few times now, and the 
majority of them have come across as bad phrasing for a reasonable 
requirement: personal resilience and effectiveness in the face of 
pressure with maybe a dash of camaraderie with the rest of the team.

Then there's the other ads, where that phrase is a sign that you'll be 
exposed to every bad management practice while being expected to work 
miracles by the rest of the company. The expression "If you can't take a 
joke, you shouldn't have joined" is what they were actually aiming for.


On a similar topic, one of the strangest requirements I've seen in a job 
ad was that any new hire would be expected to join in with the drinking 
on Friday nights. Unfortunately I didn't keep a bookmark of it so I 
can't check exact wording, but I was really quite surprised that made it 
past HR.


> Granted that If you work in Sysadmin, you *need* a sense of humour to
> survive some
> of the stupider things that users & management thrust upon you, 
> but you don't see
> many job adverts for doctors saying "must have a sense of humour".

I suspect the medical profession have their own code phrases for their 
job ads. Not sure what "workaholic stress-puppy" would be translated to, 
though...


Cheers,

Ali

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