Unicorn Employee

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

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  1. A job candidate who meets every item on an impossibly long requirements list — 10 years of experience in a 3-year-old technology, fluent in 7 languages, PhD preferred. Called a unicorn because, like the creature, they don't exist.

    In plain English: A job candidate who meets every impossible requirement in a job posting — as mythical as an actual unicorn.

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