Writing job-postings

This crossed my bows recently:

Tech Companies That Only Hire Men

It's a job-shaming tumblr for job-postings that are written in a certain style:

He will be responsible for maintaining documentation relating to the PDP-2X and repair fax machines as required.

I went looking for more postings like that and I found that they really are not that common any more. I remember them being more common back when I was job hunting a couple years ago, but apparently things have shifted enough that these are now mockable.

And they deserve to be. It is not hard to write a job posting using gender neutral terminology.

Impartial third person:

The candidate will be responsible for documentation relating to the PDP-2X and fax-machine repair.

Or more and more common now, second person:

You will be responsible for documentation relating to the PDP-2X and fax-machine repair.

The very large majority of postings I see follow one of the two styles I just mentioned. Falling back on the old, "he is a neuter word in English," rule is definitely falling out of style. Good.