Here’s how typical people read typical job ads (typically), especially ones that are this long: Read the title. Scan for a dollar sign or the words “salary” or “salary range”. If both are good enough, scan for the first bulleted list of qualifications. Most ads call these “required qualifications”. If the reader meets enough of these, they scan for the second bulleted list of qualifications which is usually called “preferred qualifications”. Then, if they meet enough of both of these, they’ll go back and start reading in detail to understand the position better before they consider sending in an application or contacting the hiring entity for more information.
I suspect that most people expected your job ad to follow this form since it almost does. Your sections are labeled, effectively “needed” and “bonus”. It’s not until you get to reading the now-bolded details that you find out that not all of the “needed” stuff is required of the applicant and that essentially any one of the needed qualifications will be sufficient. Basically, you don’t have any required qualifications, but you do have a general description of the sort of person you’re interested in and a list of preferred qualifications. In this regard, the ad is defective as it fails to comport with the usual format of a typical ad.
Non-standard forms get experienced people’s hackles up. It often indicates that there’s something unprofessional about the organization.
Here’s how typical people read typical job ads (typically), especially ones that are this long: Read the title. Scan for a dollar sign or the words “salary” or “salary range”. If both are good enough, scan for the first bulleted list of qualifications. Most ads call these “required qualifications”. If the reader meets enough of these, they scan for the second bulleted list of qualifications which is usually called “preferred qualifications”. Then, if they meet enough of both of these, they’ll go back and start reading in detail to understand the position better before they consider sending in an application or contacting the hiring entity for more information.
I suspect that most people expected your job ad to follow this form since it almost does. Your sections are labeled, effectively “needed” and “bonus”. It’s not until you get to reading the now-bolded details that you find out that not all of the “needed” stuff is required of the applicant and that essentially any one of the needed qualifications will be sufficient. Basically, you don’t have any required qualifications, but you do have a general description of the sort of person you’re interested in and a list of preferred qualifications. In this regard, the ad is defective as it fails to comport with the usual format of a typical ad.
Non-standard forms get experienced people’s hackles up. It often indicates that there’s something unprofessional about the organization.