# Fit The Job

By [Corporate Heretic](https://paragraph.com/@corporate-heretic) · 2025-05-23

career, job, jobsearch, fit

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**New from Play-Clay: Fit the Job!**  
  
Includes everything you need to flatten your soul into a mold you didn’t design. Just load your personality into the lever-activated “JOB DESCRIPTION” press, smash it flat, and try not to mix the colors.  
  
Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time reading job postings—because I’m looking for one. And after a few hundred of them, a theme emerges:  
A lot of job descriptions read like they were generated by a malfunctioning buzzword generator hooked up to a blender full of LinkedIn posts and corporate PowerPoints.  
  
You know the ones:  
  
Must be a “ninja” with 7 years of experience using a framework invented last Thursday  
  
Must thrive in fast-paced environments (translation: everything is broken)  
  
Must be detail-oriented, but also a visionary, but also able to take direction, but also lead, but also work independently, but also collaborate constantly, but also, but also, but also...  
  
We ask people to cram themselves into shapes that don’t make sense.  
Then we act surprised when the fit feels off.  
  
Maybe it’s time we try something different.  
  
We could write job descriptions for actual humans. Ask for less of the hyper-specific, memorized trivia, and more of the real stuff:  
  
Curiosity  
Adaptability  
Collaboration  
A solid grasp of fundamentals  
  
Because let’s be honest: most things that are ultra-specific today can be Googled in ten seconds or solved with help from a machine that’s terrifyingly good at autocomplete.  
  
Maybe we start hiring humans. Maybe we start describing actual jobs.  
And maybe—just maybe—let’s stop trying to smash people into molds.  
  
Until then, I’ll be over here trying to sculpt myself into a “rockstar hybrid innovator change agent (entry level, PhD required).”

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*Originally published on [Corporate Heretic](https://paragraph.com/@corporate-heretic/fit-the-job)*