In both, people spend a lot of effort defining expectations, or trying to meet someone else's. Teachers and employers face similar uncertainties, as do students and employees. Consider what one of our graduates would think if he or she applied for the job above. Some colleges count History among the humanities, not the social sciences. I hope they count the summer job I had with the YWCA as community service.
Some expectations are very crisp and non-negotiable.
Employers want to be sure that applicants have specific skills to meet safety or legal requirements of the job. We have similar concerns for college students. We want to ensure that a student entering Accounting 250, for example, can handle basic math and has grasped principles that are taught in Accounting 132. Other expectations might be met in different ways, or to different degrees. The company that wrote the ad at the top of this essay might want to attract people who value community service and who share the language of social scientists.