The Orlando Sentinel in Florida ran this article about a strange job listing:
Posted on a job board run by a Lake Mary company, it advertised a position with Sony Ericsson in Atlanta. But it had a strange twist.
If you're jobless, the ad said, don't apply.
"Candidates MUST be currently working for an original consumer electronics manufacturer in marketing," said the job listing. "NO EXCEPTIONS."
The language was even stronger in an earlier version of the post. It included this sentence: "No unemployed candidates will be considered at all."
The item, an ad for a marketing communications and public-relations chief, was posted by The People Place, which recruits for aerospace, engineering and telecommunications companies. It went up last week and soon set off a small brush fire on employment message boards.
NOTE: The article and some of the readers noted the fact that many highly qualified people lost their previous positions through no fault of their own, and that any firm that passes up an opportunity to hire experienced professionals by discriminating against the unemployed deserves what it gets. A spokesman for Sony Ericsson later said that this unfortunate choice of words was a "misunderstanding."
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