"Candidate must be willing to demonstrate organisation, enthusiasm, commitment, career focus and a target-driven approach to his or her work" or "the ideal candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills and a consistent record of initiative and achievement. He/she must have the commitment and ability to get the job right first time."

Now all this rules me out from the get go.

These websites have more than one thing in common, but the main claim they make is that if you are a driven, focused, career-minded, self starter then that site will get you a job.

Trouble is I am none of the above. In fact I know of very few tolerable people who actually are. Yet personal circumstances dictate that we all need money to live. Therefore those of us without hotel magnates for parents need jobs. Not careers as such.

Just jobs. We want to go to work at a reasonable hour, work for a reasonable amount of hours and then go home again at some sort of, well, for the want of a better phrase, reasonable hour.

And, I have to admit, that despite all the misgivings about my current employers, despite the fact that over the years they have probably, albeit unintentionally, stifled me of all my ambition, despite the fact that my suit is grey and when I'm asked about my job by friends and family, I myself struggle to describe what it is I am supposed to do, there is a certain comfort in it.

I don't pull my hair out at night and my weekend is my own. I have, as they say, found my level very early on and, given that my life outside of work is, relatively speaking, very interesting, this is probably roughly where I will stay. More money would be nice though, so with that in mind I have been flicking through the internet for another, but more lucrative, job like this one.

I have come to a startling conclusion. There appears to be a sort of recruitment apartheid against the terminally unambitious.

In a world where almost anything and everything is available in some form or other over the web, there is an opportunity for some young, up and coming, doggedly enthusiastic, aspirant tycoon to set up a website for people who are exactly the opposite.

I mean there have to be more jobs out there for people with no designs on career greatness.

In fact I'm sure there are. The problem is that they are misadvertised as the something else. The ad for the job I'm in at the moment said that I must be able to "create, seize and maximise opportunities and have the capability of establishing and managing operational structures and procedures".

Having related to them at interview that I was perfectly capable of doing so, they subsequently employed me and stuck me in the cubicle from which I write this article purely for something to do.

Herein lies the Recruitment Paradox.

There is money in recruiting the workshy.

A recruitment firm needs to be set up for those with a penchant for sleeping at night, for the many who enjoy spending time with anyone other than those in work. It needs to cater for those who doggedly refuse to sit on aeroplanes reading Richard Branson's biography on the way to a "meeting" with potential clients or who dream of being the next to have his or her arse kicked into gear in front of millions by Alan Sugar (left) on The Apprentice.

You see, even the least driven of us need a job, a job that doesn't include cleaning toilet floors with a toothbrush or proof reading the telephone book. Nor should it include the pressure to perform at the expense of all else in life.

What recruiters need to realise is that (dare I say post-Celtic Tiger) there are a lot of people in the workforce, university graduates many of them, who simply hate working.

But just because you hate working, it shouldn't preclude you from getting a job. Even the most avid graft dodger will acknowledge that the world doesn't owe him (or her) a living. Find the formula for catering for this silent mass and you have yourself a steady and reliable supply of raw material, waiting to be converted into raw cash.

Wage Slave is currently cruising the jobs websites on company time and with a spreadsheet ready to pop up with an emergency keystroke should his manager walk by