Re: recruiters with English as a second language

2006-04-07 Thread Glenn Saunders
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:08:15 -0800, Saman W Jayasekara  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Since Apu have 8 kids

Apu is also revealed to be an illegal alien, btw, in the episode that was  
anti-prop-187 propaganda, as well as Shopkeeper Willie.


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RE: recruiters with english as a second language

2006-04-02 Thread Dave Merrill
I know everyone here knows this, but I can't just leave this thread
percolating without responding...

I currently work in a culturally mixed environment, with a number of people
from outside the US. Sometimes I have a bit of difficulty with their accents
or wordings, as they do with the native english speakers, but nobody's shy
about saying, what?, so we work it out.

And make no mistake, all these folks are seriously sharp, very nice people.
I'm happy to be working with each of them.

Everybody's different from somebody. That doesn't make them any less
valuable, or worthy of respect.

Recruiters, on the other hand, regardless of where they're from, that's
another story (;-0)...

Dave Merrill



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RE: recruiters with english as a second language

2006-04-02 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
 Everybody's different from somebody. That doesn't make
 them any less valuable, or worthy of respect.

I just want to clarify that, I don't think badly of these recruiters
as people. It's frustrating for me because of the context in which the
language barrier is presented. A language barrier is always
frustrating; nobody likes to have a misunderstanding, even when both
people speak a common language fluently. So when you notice a sudden
and dramatic increase in the likelyhood for misunderstanding during a
conversation, it raises an obvious concern about the possibility for
miscommunication. In trivial conversations about movies or sports, the
concern is trivial; in non-trivial conversations about pay-rates and
hours worked, the concern is non-trivial.

In a conversation with a recruiter there are additional factors which
amplify this concern, such as the fact that a recruiter is someone
whom you have usually not previously met and therefore have had no
opportunity to acclimatize yourself to their individual accent,
mannerisms or word selection. You're also speaking to someone who has
a vested interest in placing you with a job (for their commission) and
who will most likely not speak to you after you are placed, which
eliminates the vested interest another person such as an ongoing
business partner would have in acclimating the relationship to improve
communication in the future, and in all probability eliminates much if
not all of the vested interest the recruiter has in your own personal
well-being. Even recruiters who speak a common language fluently have
been known to lie to job-seekers (by omission if nothing else) to
preserve their interest in the commission when the job-seeker's
interests would not be well served by the employer. The only condition
which is likely to change their interest in the outcome is an ongoing
relationship with a larger company which hires many of its recruits
through their agency, but you can't count on that sort of relationship
in more than at most half of the recruiters you talk with.

Further the hiring process is short and often rushed, and even when
all parties are genuinely interested in the best possible fit, the
simple lack of experience with one another is another source of
increasingly likely miscommunication. With a single company you're not
likely to spend more than 3 hours or so in interview prior to being
hired, compared to the 40 hrs of exposure you'll have to that company
in your first week of employment, so by the time you're hired, you are
really likely to know very little about the company, and of course
both the job-seeker and the employer are liable to massage their own
outward appearances (possibly stretching the truth or lying by
omission -- we try to keep overtime to a minimum here minimum=5hrs
per week) because each is courting the other to serve their own
interests.

The end result is that I'm already a little anxious about choosing the
right job because I know that there's already an increased likelyhood
for miscommunication during the interview process and because myself,
the employer and the recruiter all have different and frequently
non-mutual interests in the outcome. So when I say that I don't like
talking with recruiters who have a poor grasp of our common language
(English) or who speak with such thick accents that it's difficult for
me to understand them, I'm concerned about my own personal well-being;
I will work the job months or years into the future, the recruiter
will not.

To respond to the previous comment about English being the sword
which is used to divide people, my aversion to this situation has
absolutely bupkiss, zero, zilch, nada, NOTHING to do with my not
wanting to be in contact with their tribe. In a social context, I'll
immerse myself in nearly any tribe (barring violence which is why I
exclude Snoop Dog's tribe), and given an opportunity I'll learn their
language. In school I learned some french and a little less spanish. I
would GLADLY interview in French for a job in Canada, France or Monaco
if I honestly felt fluent in my grasp of that language.


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RE: recruiters with english as a second language

2006-04-02 Thread Saman W Jayasekara
I totally agree with Isaac. 
Forget about English. Coldfusion is better. 

About Recruiters, let me copy from Dave's email. That explains lot of
things. 
// Recruiters, on the other hand, regardless of where they're from, that's
another story (;-0)...

This is very good discussion for recruiters who want to improve PR skills. 

Sam

-Original Message-
From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 10:52 PM
To: CF-Jobs-Talk
Subject: RE: recruiters with english as a second language

 Everybody's different from somebody. That doesn't make
 them any less valuable, or worthy of respect.

I just want to clarify that, I don't think badly of these recruiters
as people. It's frustrating for me because of the context in which the
language barrier is presented. A language barrier is always
frustrating; nobody likes to have a misunderstanding, even when both
people speak a common language fluently. So when you notice a sudden
and dramatic increase in the likelyhood for misunderstanding during a
conversation, it raises an obvious concern about the possibility for
miscommunication. In trivial conversations about movies or sports, the
concern is trivial; in non-trivial conversations about pay-rates and
hours worked, the concern is non-trivial.

In a conversation with a recruiter there are additional factors which
amplify this concern, such as the fact that a recruiter is someone
whom you have usually not previously met and therefore have had no
opportunity to acclimatize yourself to their individual accent,
mannerisms or word selection. You're also speaking to someone who has
a vested interest in placing you with a job (for their commission) and
who will most likely not speak to you after you are placed, which
eliminates the vested interest another person such as an ongoing
business partner would have in acclimating the relationship to improve
communication in the future, and in all probability eliminates much if
not all of the vested interest the recruiter has in your own personal
well-being. Even recruiters who speak a common language fluently have
been known to lie to job-seekers (by omission if nothing else) to
preserve their interest in the commission when the job-seeker's
interests would not be well served by the employer. The only condition
which is likely to change their interest in the outcome is an ongoing
relationship with a larger company which hires many of its recruits
through their agency, but you can't count on that sort of relationship
in more than at most half of the recruiters you talk with.

Further the hiring process is short and often rushed, and even when
all parties are genuinely interested in the best possible fit, the
simple lack of experience with one another is another source of
increasingly likely miscommunication. With a single company you're not
likely to spend more than 3 hours or so in interview prior to being
hired, compared to the 40 hrs of exposure you'll have to that company
in your first week of employment, so by the time you're hired, you are
really likely to know very little about the company, and of course
both the job-seeker and the employer are liable to massage their own
outward appearances (possibly stretching the truth or lying by
omission -- we try to keep overtime to a minimum here minimum=5hrs
per week) because each is courting the other to serve their own
interests.

The end result is that I'm already a little anxious about choosing the
right job because I know that there's already an increased likelyhood
for miscommunication during the interview process and because myself,
the employer and the recruiter all have different and frequently
non-mutual interests in the outcome. So when I say that I don't like
talking with recruiters who have a poor grasp of our common language
(English) or who speak with such thick accents that it's difficult for
me to understand them, I'm concerned about my own personal well-being;
I will work the job months or years into the future, the recruiter
will not.

To respond to the previous comment about English being the sword
which is used to divide people, my aversion to this situation has
absolutely bupkiss, zero, zilch, nada, NOTHING to do with my not
wanting to be in contact with their tribe. In a social context, I'll
immerse myself in nearly any tribe (barring violence which is why I
exclude Snoop Dog's tribe), and given an opportunity I'll learn their
language. In school I learned some french and a little less spanish. I
would GLADLY interview in French for a job in Canada, France or Monaco
if I honestly felt fluent in my grasp of that language.


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Re: recruiters with english as a second language

2006-04-02 Thread Pete Ruckelshaus
Lest my earlier response be judged in any way racial, I need to follow
up.  My tendancy towards ignoring recruiters, whether native English
speakers or not, comes from my experiences with recruiters in general.
 As a whole, I find recruiters to be somewhere between the tax man and
used car salesman on the people I like dealing with scale.  Without
fail, every recruiter that I have dealt with is more than happy to be
your best friend when they think they can use you, but as soon as a
client has passed on you for one reason or another, getting them to
respond to a phone call or an email is like pulling teeth from a
chicken.  I had a recruiter pursuing me aggressively for a position a
couple of years ago to fill a design manager position at one of their
clients.  For whatever reason, they passed on me.  I never learned the
reason because the several emails and phone calls that I made to the
recruiter were never returned.  About three months ago, I was
contacted by the same recruiter, who was hot and bothered to get me in
to interview for a position that I was pretty uninterested in. 
However, I remembered this gentleman and was pretty point blank about
asking him why I should deal with him when he had completely ignored
me a couple of years ago.

So, I guess my whole attitude towards recruiters is pretty bad, but
IMO they earned it.  I understand that they deal with a large number
of people as part of their job, but having the decency to provide some
feedback to their potential job recipients is apparently too much to
ask.

Pete

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Re: recruiters with English as a second language

2006-04-01 Thread James Holmes
On 4/1/06, Saman W Jayasekara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi Guys,
[snip]

 Since Apu have 8 kids who most probably will be native speakers (because
 they have to survive in the school with Nelson) what native English you
 would like them to speak? Snoop Dog's Native English or Jeff Foxworthy's
 Native English?

The Queen's thanks.

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Re: recruiters with english as a second language

2006-03-31 Thread Aaron Rouse
Same here, was amazed the first few times it happened that recruiting had
been outsourced like that.  I tried to nicely tell the first couple I was
not interested but after rewording that statement a few times without them
understanding what I was saying I finally just gave up.  Probably does not
help that I generally have a low opinion of recruiters to begin with.

On 3/30/06, Pete Ruckelshaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I've gotten a number of calls from recruiters that were pretty
 obviously outsourced Indian callcenter employees who were dialling for
 dollars.  As a rule, I hang up on them as quickly as possible.  I have
 also gotten emails that used less than native English, which I delete
 just as quickly.  Sorry, but if they don't care enough to communicate
 properly and effectively, I don't care enough to respond.

 Pete

 On 3/30/06, S. Isaac Dealey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  So...
 
  I hope I'm not offending anyone, but at what point do you simply not
  respond to a recruiter if there's an obvious language barrier? I'm
  just curious if anyone else has a rule of thumb they use, because I
  just got an email from a recruiter asking me to revert back
  positively ... with the resume and the rate, indicating that he's
  confused the definition of reply or possibly respond and revert.
 
 
  It seems like now more than any other time that I've looked for a job,
  the majority of the recruiters I talk to are some variety of
  (middle)eastern (I'm guessing mostly Indian, although of course I
  don't ask) with varying degrees of either accent or language barrier.
  I really don't want to come across as being insensitive, but some of
  these people (a good number of them actually) speak english over the
  phone so poorly that it takes several iterations of a word or phrase
  before I understand what they're trying to say, and it really makes me
  wonder how they've even been hired in a recruiting capacity by
  companies seeking english-speaking workers.
 
  My current job search seems to be nearing its end, so I'm not liable
  to need to worry about it for hopefully several years now, I'm just
  curious what other people's thoughts are on the subject.
 
 
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Re: recruiters with english as a second language

2006-03-31 Thread Sree Veerapaneni
While I would agree about the communication barrier -

Just wanted to point out FYI - India is not in the middle east...


On 3/31/06, S. Isaac Dealey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Despite various websites' preference settings (Career
  Builder and DICE
  come to mind), I STILL get emails from recruiters, usually
  with
  middle-eastern names, shopping for candidates for jobs I'm
  simply not
  qualified for.  I hate that.

 I used to get that pretty frequently with recruiters seeing that my
 resume had some minimal ASP experience on it (a year of ASP 2.0 that I
 never liked and haven't touched more than twice in the last 6 years)
 and would call me up saying they're looking for an experienced ASP
 _expert_. That was from predominantly American recruiters
 surprisingly enough. Over time java expert gradually crept in as
 well, and now I'm getting frequent contacts for C++ expert... I
 spent 3 days fixing a C++ COM object for scanning images from the web
 directly to a server about a year ago or so, and that's the sum total
 of official C++ experience I have (I taught myself from books about 9
 yrs ago just before I started working with CF and hadn't been asked to
 work with C++ in all that time). If it gets much worse I'll have to
 stop posting my resume on the job sites and just rely on searching and
 submitting it myself. Although mercifully I shouldn't have to deal
 with this for much longer and then will get a nice long several year
 break from it. Maybe in 2010 or so when I'm ready for another change
 people will have figured out how wasteful and unproductive the current
 recruiting trends are.


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RE: recruiters with english as a second language

2006-03-31 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
 By the way, I saw the () in your Middle East reference,
 but others weren't including it, so I think that was it
 was pointed out that India isn't in the Middle East.

Yep, that's why I clarified. :)

Thanks Levi,

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Re: recruiters with english as a second language

2006-03-31 Thread Scott Fairley
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Not trying to be mean or anything but when he 
sounds like Apu from the Simpsons I really don't listen to what they are saying.

So...

I hope I'm not offending anyone, but at what point do you simply not
respond to a recruiter if there's an obvious language barrier? I'm
just curious if anyone else has a rule of thumb they use, because I
just got an email from a recruiter asking me to revert back
positively ... with the resume and the rate, indicating that he's
confused the definition of reply or possibly respond and revert.


It seems like now more than any other time that I've looked for a job,
the majority of the recruiters I talk to are some variety of
(middle)eastern (I'm guessing mostly Indian, although of course I
don't ask) with varying degrees of either accent or language barrier.
I really don't want to come across as being insensitive, but some of
these people (a good number of them actually) speak english over the
phone so poorly that it takes several iterations of a word or phrase
before I understand what they're trying to say, and it really makes me
wonder how they've even been hired in a recruiting capacity by
companies seeking english-speaking workers.

My current job search seems to be nearing its end, so I'm not liable
to need to worry about it for hopefully several years now, I'm just
curious what other people's thoughts are on the subject.


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Re: recruiters with english as a second language

2006-03-31 Thread Scott Fairley
Glad to hear it happens to others. Not trying to be mean or anything but when 
they sound like Apu from the Simpsons I really don't listen to what they have 
to say and just say no thanks.

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RE: recruiters with English as a second language

2006-03-31 Thread Saman W Jayasekara
Hi Guys,

English is not my mother tongue. But I can't stop my self putting my two
cents in to this since languages are one of my favorite subjects. 

If you guys (Native English speakers) thinks that is a problem you guys
facing - that is wrong. This is an advantage for you. 

I'm not been a native English speaker but traveling all over the world bring
me two types of problems when it come to English. 
1. Some do not speak English at all - that is pure communication barrier.
Hate that.
2. Some Native English speakers do not be comfortable enough with me even I
imitate everything else belong to that tribe (dress code, dining habits,
etc..) - That is pure cultural barrier. I experience this more with
Americans - and less with Black Americans and middle class British. But I
understand that and have no complains.

Where I come from, people call English as 'the Sward'. Because the primary
purpose of the sward is to eliminate others who do not have a shaper one.
May be that is why some people choose not to involved in this sward fighting
at all. (Koreans, Japanese, Russians, French, etc.) 

Anyway when you study about humans and languages you may notice primary
purpose of language is not communication - but separate your tribe from
others. We are trying to use one language as the global language first time
in the human history. It is not a happy story how English become the global
language. But having a global language is a wonderful thing. 

But still when ever we feel Apu is not belong to our tribe, our body feel
uncomfortable unintentionally and make us hang up the phone faster. That is
our primitive human instinct of keep away from other tribes. That is not
wrong. I truly hope one day English will use just for communication purposes
only. 

Even that bad English will exist giving native speakers clear advantage. Apu
may never understand why we drive in the parkway and park in the driveway.
That means More Business for You in the global economy - and less business
for Apu. Cheer Up! (But keep the borders secure).

Since Apu have 8 kids who most probably will be native speakers (because
they have to survive in the school with Nelson) what native English you
would like them to speak? Snoop Dog's Native English or Jeff Foxworthy's
Native English?

Take care Guy,
Sam 

-Original Message-
From: Scott Fairley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:44 PM
To: CF-Jobs-Talk
Subject: Re: recruiters with english as a second language

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Not trying to be mean or anything but when he
sounds like Apu from the Simpsons I really don't listen to what they are
saying.

So...

I hope I'm not offending anyone, but at what point do you simply not
respond to a recruiter if there's an obvious language barrier? I'm
just curious if anyone else has a rule of thumb they use, because I
just got an email from a recruiter asking me to revert back
positively ... with the resume and the rate, indicating that he's
confused the definition of reply or possibly respond and revert.


It seems like now more than any other time that I've looked for a job,
the majority of the recruiters I talk to are some variety of
(middle)eastern (I'm guessing mostly Indian, although of course I
don't ask) with varying degrees of either accent or language barrier.
I really don't want to come across as being insensitive, but some of
these people (a good number of them actually) speak english over the
phone so poorly that it takes several iterations of a word or phrase
before I understand what they're trying to say, and it really makes me
wonder how they've even been hired in a recruiting capacity by
companies seeking english-speaking workers.

My current job search seems to be nearing its end, so I'm not liable
to need to worry about it for hopefully several years now, I'm just
curious what other people's thoughts are on the subject.


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Re: recruiters with english as a second language

2006-03-30 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Thanks Pete, it's good to know I'm not alone. :)

 I've gotten a number of calls from recruiters that were
 pretty
 obviously outsourced Indian callcenter employees who were
 dialling for
 dollars.  As a rule, I hang up on them as quickly as
 possible.  I have
 also gotten emails that used less than native English,
 which I delete
 just as quickly.  Sorry, but if they don't care enough to
 communicate
 properly and effectively, I don't care enough to respond.

 Pete


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Re: recruiters with english as a second language

2006-03-30 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
 Despite various websites' preference settings (Career
 Builder and DICE
 come to mind), I STILL get emails from recruiters, usually
 with
 middle-eastern names, shopping for candidates for jobs I'm
 simply not
 qualified for.  I hate that.

I used to get that pretty frequently with recruiters seeing that my
resume had some minimal ASP experience on it (a year of ASP 2.0 that I
never liked and haven't touched more than twice in the last 6 years)
and would call me up saying they're looking for an experienced ASP
_expert_. That was from predominantly American recruiters
surprisingly enough. Over time java expert gradually crept in as
well, and now I'm getting frequent contacts for C++ expert... I
spent 3 days fixing a C++ COM object for scanning images from the web
directly to a server about a year ago or so, and that's the sum total
of official C++ experience I have (I taught myself from books about 9
yrs ago just before I started working with CF and hadn't been asked to
work with C++ in all that time). If it gets much worse I'll have to
stop posting my resume on the job sites and just rely on searching and
submitting it myself. Although mercifully I shouldn't have to deal
with this for much longer and then will get a nice long several year
break from it. Maybe in 2010 or so when I'm ready for another change
people will have figured out how wasteful and unproductive the current
recruiting trends are.


s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201
new epoch : isn't it time for a change?

add features without fixtures with
the onTap open source framework

http://www.fusiontap.com
http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm


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