Phil, take your point about reading the specs and getting your approach accurate and germane. But we job-seekers do have to take the hour requirements with a pinch of salt. Of course employers are going to set them high, knowing they'll get truckloads of responses from those with fewer, but also a good handful of the wildly OVERqualified. Trouble is, I guess this sets up a vicious circle; we apply the pinch of salt, so advertisers hoick the Required Hours ever higher... Reality vanishes.