Usability and job ads

I confess, it’s hard to resist perusing job ads. I want to see what’s out there and what other universities are thinking they want in a new hire (clue: everything; certainly more than you or I might modestly claim to have). Of course, some just make me laugh out loud, but presumably not as intended. Across my inbox falls one beauty last week which I had to share with the faculty. It consisted of an eight line brief description followed by a 10 line URL (surely a new attempt at a world record in a competition we all thought died in the last century). The irony being the job was for a faculty member specializing in usability.   Clearly, they recognize what they need!