I promise you that when l started working in 1981, 82 they wanted 3 years experience for dishwashers , that’s putting dishes in a dishwasher oh ya you also have to take them out .Why would you need 3 years to open and close a door . Is it the rinse .
I interned for a blue-collar temp agency, mostly hiring for meat packing plants and forklift driving jobs.
They legit copy-paste the job requirements from a set of folders for each job they need. Or, some hapless individual is told to ‘put an ad up’ and they have no idea what the job requires because it’s for a different job, so they go on the jobseeking websites and copy what others have written.
Ignore the 5 years’ experience request for an entry-level job.
What you really should be asking is how many resumes are actually reviewed.
Job recruiters post their absolute best case ideal for a candidate. They aren’t expecting to find all the qualifications.
The company I work for is a big tech startup that is well known in my city, and we recieve a LOT of applications when we post jobs. We request qualifications that are not needed at all, because it makes it easier to avoid legal trouble when we deliver feedback to unsuccessful applicants who demand to know why they weren’t hired.
Its easy to tell an overqualified person that they didn’t recieve the job because they were passed up for someone else who met more of our needed qualifications.
When people post these BS complaints about how entry level positions have impossible requirements, they need to grow up and just have the bravery to apply and get rejected a few times.
In most cases you will get an entry level job with no issues if have the related skills and you seem interested. You just might need to apply at several of them.
They can be used to refuse to hire people for reasons that aren’t legal to refuse to hire people without leaving as many legal traces – They can just say you’re below minimum qualifications and leave it at that.