About job applications
Today I was pleasantly surprised. I took the opportunity to reach out to a company I wanted to apply for a job with. It was the first time I pushed myself to contact someone for "any questions" from a job posting and I was ever so delighted to hear a lovely, bubbly voice on the other end, it helped me slip back into my "phone voice" after weeks of limited conversation with anyone but my cat. Amongst other things, I wanted to ask her about the specific requirements, especially regarding technical knowledge, as all specifics were purely listed under 'desirable' and not 'essential'. The job description was everything I was looking for, meaning that this is not the first job I would be applying for with the same or similar title. However, most of these previous postings were all throwing software names at you from all kind of angles, as if the person applying used to be managing the position in question and they decided, they had enough of the higher sa...