, approximately 38% of job ads contained corporate gobble-de-gook offering a “window of opportunity” to “make hay” and “go viral”.The worst offender of jargon over-use is the state of Washington, where 598 per 1,000 job listings contained “complicated words and phrases, the most common being “cloud-first”, a phase that leaves even me, a technology consultant, puzzled as to its meaning.
'puts applicants off of applying' say authors of report into the inappropriate use of language...