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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

I heart job descriptions.

People love using biz speak for job descriptions. Any verbiage that makes the employer's "requirements" more opaque to the reader also tends to make them more amusing. Here's an example.

Coordinates with client management to formulate complex technical solutions. 

Moar complexity, please! Complexity locks customers in. If the customer can't understand your "solution," you have her over a barrel. Of course that's not what the author meant.

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