Your Job Ad: The Start of a Great Hiring Experience
Here’s a favorite: “Excellent verbal and interpersonal communication skills.” Are there jobs for user experience designers that don’t need excellent verbal and interpersonal communication skills?
Then there’s this one: “Excels in a high growth, fast paced environment.” In case you were only considering positions in no-growth, slow-moving environments.
And this one: “Strong attention to detail and good communication and team skills.” Apparently, they need someone with a strong attention to the detail in the use of serial commas.
All of these, you might’ve guessed, are job requirements from ads for user experience designers. The companies behind these ads are looking for… (Wait for it…) “critical, out-of-the-box thinkers with ninja-like skills in conceptual ideation, communication hierarchy and storytelling, and design execution, who can crush simultaneous projects while remaining flexible enough to go the extra mile when necessary.”
You probably couldn’t tell by reading the ads, but all these companies are trying to hire the best and brightest designers they can, just like everyone else. (Nobody tries to hire mediocre, dumb designers, do they?) Their awkwardly written ads aren’t helping them one little bit.
