Requirements nobody meets
Job posts ask for far more than the job needs, and candidates stretch their résumés to match. Both sides lose.
The norm today is to ask for a truckload of requirements in a job post, even knowing most of them won't be used in the job.
That sets off a chain reaction. Companies ask for the impossible, and candidates try to fit the profile until their résumés are mostly copy and paste. The best professionals don't even apply. They're already well placed, and offers come to them directly.
It has become a chicken-and-egg problem. Candidates exaggerate on their résumés and companies exaggerate in their requirements, and it's hard to say who started. The companies and candidates who tell the truth end up as the exception.
It reminds me of a job post asking for twelve years of experience in a technology that was six years old.
Honest job posts get honest résumés.