As somebody who has the misfortunate of working beside a clueless, useless, misogynist who is effectively totally unskilled but compensates with 10 years “experience”, whose only real skills are in fact working 25% hours fewer than required, coming in late 90% of the time, stinking because he only washes and combs his hair on Thursdays and wafting his stench around the office, its unfortunate that employers are so blinkered and unwilling to accept that a bright, ethusiastic person can be trained up to do anything, and many such “skillsets” are self-reported but non-existent.

Its sadder still that pages and pages of so-called recruitment “experts” advise people to depend on transferable skills rather than develop paper skils that the employers demand, even if they don’t reflect real ability levels.