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These job ads can be fairly arbitrary, simply because they're looking for something that's somewhat tangential to the type of job they're really after.
Another real-world example is the employment ad for a software developer looking for experience in web design. Don't you think they can and will recruit web designers instead? What if the list of skills was completely arbitrary and over-inclusive like this?
For our purposes, a real-world example of job ads that aren't hiring for the skills they claim to be looking for are the (admittedly non-typical) ads below.
It should be apparent that this is a problem. Since we are only looking at job ads that claim to be looking for a CS degree, not every job advertised is actually looking for a CS degree. If we take the content of the job ad at face value, not all of them are relevant to our task.
We're left with two questions:
Why is it the case that there are plenty of CS job ads, but very few that actually give a CS degree as a requirement?
Why do the companies that advertise in newspapers and on-line want a CS degree if most of the jobs they say they want are not requiring one?
#1 is simple to answer: if there's no applicant pool, they'll create one. By saying, "We're only interested in CS degree holders," they are creating an artificial application pool.
I'm not an expert on the topic of resume writing and workflows, but I suspect this is how it's happening. When companies see there are few candidates with the requisite experience and skills, they start to advertise "overly competitive" positions. This is a signal to recruiters and hiring managers to start to look for "perfectly qualified" candidates who have only relevant experience.
It's then up to the employer to filter through the applicant pool in their own ways.
#2 is a bit trickier, so I'll just throw out a couple of thoughts.
I was just reading an article that claimed that people are lazy, so they'll accept whatever the employer says they need. This seems reasonable, since otherwise they'd have to apply to every job that didn't ask for a CS degree.
While I've never had a job where I was responsible for hiring a technical recruiter, I've heard from my
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