"Part time evening cashier position available. No experience required! We train you! Meet all kinds of interesting beings from across time and space. We offer health insurance, life insurance, and other benefits to all our honorable employees. Bleak Hill Grocery is an equal opportunity employer, all sentient beings are encouraged to apply."
Maybe these help wanted ads could appear in your game world's weekly gazette or on a small town bulletin board.
Not too long ago I made a lot of "fake" advertisements as part of a book project, but the book ended up going with a Low Fantasy setting so these didn't really fit in with the overall tone.
I thought about using them elsewhere, but I can always make more, I guess.
Hiring is candidate-centric in today's challenging market, so your job advertisements have to be engaging to compete. Getting applications from job seekers means evaluating your job posts from a candidate point of view: what is attracting talent, and what's turning them away?
Read more: https://www.hospitalrecruiting.com/blog/8730/how-to-drive-candidate-engagement-with-high-quality-job-posts/
I've started to build a bookmark file of jobsearch sites to check regularly, and part of that is looking around at employers local to Chicago. On a whim I went to the careers site of one of the larger corporations headquartered here, and while I was poking around to see what kind of requirements they have for what kind of jobs, I came across the worst tabletop campaign ever:
We’re looking for a data product expert who’s also the ultimate puzzle/dungeon master. Your quest: work with a group of diverse stakeholders to discover key problems to solve and drive consensus, adoption of data standards. The treasure? A faster, more resilient and reliable data system...
That's terrible and funny all on its own, but it gets even better when you know what Large Evil Chicago Corporation I was looking at:
Job Opportunity: Research & Instruction Librarian for Student Success(full-time faculty, 12-month, tenure-track), Weinberg Memorial Library at The University of Scranton
Job Opportunity: Research & Instruction Librarian for Student Success(full-time faculty, 12-month, tenure-track), Weinberg Memorial Library at The University of Scranton
The University of Scranton invites applications for a full-time, 12-month, tenure-track Research & Instruction Librarian for Student Success. The successful candidate will be appointed to the rank of Assistant Professor and will be compensated according to the Faculty collective bargaining agreement, see Article 5 (p.…
WE ARE HIRING!
MOTHERHOOD CO.
Job Title: Stay-at-Home Mom
Benefits:
Daily snuggles
A ton of love in your heart
Unlocking your unlimited source of patience.
Can wear sweats and no bra all day.
Pay: $00.00/hr
Availability:
24hrs/7 days a week/365 days a year
NO holidays
NO days off (unless you can find your own temporary replacement)
NO guaranteed lunch, pee, or water breaks (You may…
PSA: If anyone is considering paying for Tumblr ad free to escape the ads...
The ads are excluded. From exclusion by ad free. As an opportunity graciously permitted to us, apparently.
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Hey @staff got anything to add? Oh, sorry, to ad?
So yeah here's the place to complain loudly and often, I used multiple drop downs to test (and because I am filled with spite) and, unsurprisingly, the only one I got a reply on was using the category "Paid Options".
So everyone, feel free to go to Tumblr support, select Paid Options as your category, and complain in your preferred degree of politeness about how you...
CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER!
Are going to cancel your subscription if they keep advertising on ad free
Were considering ad free but became aware that it's not actually ad free, so bad Tumblr, no cookie money
"Bleak Hill Grocery is now hiring general maintenance staff. Potential applicants should have general understanding of plumbing, basic carpentry, and nightmare fuel powered engines. If interested please speak with any honorable employee to receive an application."