Hiring | Internship requires candidate with 'impossible' levels of experience

When recruiting for a role, employers are likely to want as many skills and as much previous work experience as a candidate can offer. Not only will this make them a more valuable hire, it is likely to have huge benefits for the employer’s business.

However, when looking to fill an internship, jobseekers may assume that, as an internship is considered as an entry-level job, the candidate expectations would be lowered.

However, this wasn’t the case in the slightest in this instance.

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An anonymous user on Reddit shared their experience of an overly-demanding employer looking for ‘impossible’ levels of work experience in order to be considered. Successful applicants for an internship were required to have between five and ten-years’ work experience situated within a similar field of the role that they would be taking up.