Recently a friend of mine was applying for a job and one of the questions was: “Do you consider yourself Mono-chronic or Polychromic?” Now when she emailed me about the question she mentioned that she had to look up both words, differences and their definitions which she found here:
Of course, she laughed off the question with a joke about English being her second language but even I as a primarily English language speaker was stumped when she sent me that question and was secretly glad her email came with a link explaining the two! But it does raise a question, even though the rest of some of these questions were “hip” and basically seemed to the reader “anti-establishment” or were outside the box questions for a job application, how “high end” does the vocabulary used for a job description need to be?
Keep in mind this is for a position similar to a customer service representative, so the terminology used is basically unnecessary unless the client is dealing with some type of Psychology or Organizational Development themed clientele the reasoning behind such use is questionable. Maybe the usage is done to dissuade potential applicants that the organization does not feel is on the same level as them or their clientele they service.
A “roadblock” or a deterrent is usually a means to weed out the casual applicant who may or may not be qualified from may whatever requirement the organization desires but it also may shoo away (highly) qualified applicants that think such wording is pretentious and therefore not the right fit for them. I am not saying that a job posting must be elementary in its wording but an organization should also be wary of the terminology it uses so that it may be inclusive for all types and manners of applicants.
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