I see people are highly upvoting the post, even correcting for the Bostrom’s halo effect, so I’m updating a bit in the direction of you being right. I also see that you’ve followed Lachouette suggestion, and I like it.
I would be genuinely curious to see if it worked as intended in the end, might change the way in which I conduct job interviews a bit (I obviously realize that this is an irrelevant request that will probably not be met).
The point of writing an ad like that is to be appealing to people who would fit the job and not be appealing to people who wouldn’t.
Exactly—if anything I am trying to make the job seem less appealing than it will be, so we attract only the right kind of person.
I see people are highly upvoting the post, even correcting for the Bostrom’s halo effect, so I’m updating a bit in the direction of you being right. I also see that you’ve followed Lachouette suggestion, and I like it.
I would be genuinely curious to see if it worked as intended in the end, might change the way in which I conduct job interviews a bit (I obviously realize that this is an irrelevant request that will probably not be met).
Best of luck with the recruiting.
The idea here is “high impact secretary”, rather than “slave”.