Damn, I Only Have Nine Years Of Experience "As a successful large project commercial sales representative in the fire sprinkler industry"

 

Sometimes, as a jobseeker, I wonder if these unicorn candidates even exist.  For example, with this one, if the ideal candidate were a successful large project commercial sales representative", then why would he or she be looking for a new position?

Presumably, either ads such as this must work, or the company has no idea what it is doing.

My bet, given my experience working in corporate America, is on the latter.


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