XX possible job opening

[Sharon Campbell Knox]

Why are high expectations such a problem?  Should the ads run,
"Person with mediocre command of English and Russian, no particular
research interests, other Slavic languages not welcome" ?
Asking for familiarity with Czech is hardly like asking candidates
to "play the xylophone upside down."  Job ads always, in any field,
ask for the top possible qualities.  If there aren't people out there
who  have those qualities ( as all the e-mail hysteria seems to suggest)
then they'll have to choose from candidates who have SOME of those
qualities.