Austrian insurance company employs workers based on their astrological sign

According to the UK’s Daily Mail, a Salzburg, Austria insurance company placed an ad in a European newspaper in hopes of finding the best possible employees available. The ad, however, limits applicants to those who have specific astrological signs. The Daily Mail piece lists these signs as the ones the company desires of potential employees:

“We are looking for people over 20 for part-time jobs in sales and management with the following star signs: Capricorn, Taurus, Aquarius, Aries and Leo.”

The company’s rationale for the astrological limitation on applicants is,

“A statistical study indicated that almost all of our best employees across Austria have one of the five star signs. We only decided to continue with that system and hire the best workers.”

Philosophically astrology holds the view that man and the universe are connected by a spiritual force whereby man is a microcosm of the patterns of his planets at birth, and the planets reflect one’s inner self.