You’d think so, but from my experience screening resumes tons and tons of people who are not qualified or obviously don’t fit very simple criteria still apply to jobs. I wasted time reading resumes of people who shouldn’t have even applied, and I wasn’t even doing any interviewing.
Strength is also a lot less fuzzy than intelligence/capability in general. Warehouse jobs can say “Must be able to lift x pounds to y height regularly” or whatever so it’s obvious what the job requires and easy for the person to know if they can do it. It’s harder to quantify being smart, or having knowledge of certain fields, or ability to sell products. This means that it’s more effort on the part of people applying to know whether they should (which means they’ll probably just apply because you might as well) AND more effort on the part of the hirer to figure out who is qualified.
You’d think so, but from my experience screening resumes tons and tons of people who are not qualified or obviously don’t fit very simple criteria still apply to jobs. I wasted time reading resumes of people who shouldn’t have even applied, and I wasn’t even doing any interviewing.
Strength is also a lot less fuzzy than intelligence/capability in general. Warehouse jobs can say “Must be able to lift x pounds to y height regularly” or whatever so it’s obvious what the job requires and easy for the person to know if they can do it. It’s harder to quantify being smart, or having knowledge of certain fields, or ability to sell products. This means that it’s more effort on the part of people applying to know whether they should (which means they’ll probably just apply because you might as well) AND more effort on the part of the hirer to figure out who is qualified.