Applied to the position and received message about 1.5 months later from a senior administrator to have a call to discuss the role and my experience. On the call, we spend about 10 minutes to go over what the role will be in charge of and I go over my analytics and project management experience. The senior then says oh you don't have experience in a certain area X, I'll relay that to the committee and the senior wants to end the conversation right there.
I thought that was completely unreasonable, if not a complete waste of everyone's time because:
(1) you can see on my resume already that I don't have experience working for X, what's the point of this call if that's the only question you are going to ask since you should already know the answer. Also the job posting specifically says it's not required to have that experience.
(2) I have spoken to people who work in similar positions at other institutions, I understand what kinds of analysis, projects, and stakes such a role will take. Many enter the similar position without experience in X and it's absolutely not essential to the work. It is more important to have capacity to learn quickly, analytical skills, project management and team management experience.
(3) I wanted to ask more questions and drive the conversation toward the skills I have besides X that are directly translatable toward the position but the senior just ended the conversation without giving me a chance to speak.