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Recruitment answers in the stars

Salzburg, an Austrian insurance firm, has advertised in their National Press for staff born under the signs of Leo, Aries, Taurus, Capricorn and Aquarius.

Predictably, the reaction concentrated on potential discrimination issues from the other seven zodiac signs, which claims were finally rejected after the company demonstrated higher performance in existing staff from their preferred signs, but no-one seems to have questioned the fundamental lunacy of their selection methods.