I spent a fair amount of last year un employed, some of these recruiting
companies wasted my time and lots of my dwindling cash reserves (flying from
Brisbane to Sydney). For jobs that I think were dubious to begin with.
I spent a lot of time thinking about creating a website with information
about each of the recruiting companies and which ones were ok and which ones
were not (some of them are good).
I think what a lot of these companies are doing is illegal under the Trade
Practices Act. And I am still pissed off enough a year later to want to
catch some of them at it.
Some of my favourite experiences were recruitment companies changing my
resume and introducing so many spelling mistakes it came up in an interview,
when I looked at it in my interview blankly wondering who's it was. They say
yes they are very interested in you and we will call you next week and then
nothing and they consultant suddenly wont take your call. Some one asked for
unix experience and I rang up the was relating to the Unix expert consultant
my experience in IRIX, I was told 'IRIX what's that, um unix you know,
solaris'.
Sigh.
Ben de Luca
> From: Terry Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: WOA Computer Services
> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:46:00 +1100
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] work apparently available yet no-one seems interested
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I refer to the job set out below, which I found on JobNet.
>> It has appeared repeatedly over the last few weeks and I am
>> surprised the advertisers haven't been killed in the rush.
>> Does anyone know why the job is still there?
>
> Jim
>
> You must be new to jobnet. No offence intended.
>
> If a job is advertised in the newspaper by a company itself, there is a
> good chance that someone really wants to employ someone because
> newspaper advertisements cost money.
>
> If the job is advertised in the newspaper by a big agency, it means
> close to nothing, because big agencies obtain cheap advertising by
> committing to take so many column inches each week. So, occassionally
> they have column inches to fill and they advertise non-existent jobs to
> fill the space. Also, it gives them resumes for their database.
>
> It goes downhill fast from there.
>
> Internet advertising is basically very cheap or no cost, so there is a
> lot of crap (false advertisements).
>
> Agencies place advertisements for the following reasons;
> 1) they have a position to fill,
> 2) they might have a position to fill,
> 3) some company bunny has been pestered and told them they want people
> with
> these skills to get the agency off their back,
> 4) they have no one on the books with those skills, so they collect
> resumes,
> 5) they have no jobs on their book, so they collect resumes for when
> they do,
> 6) to stop other people applying for the position through other
> agencies
> (apply through them and they sit on your resume
> because they have already selected 3 people to put forward).
> 7) no one has advertised the job for a while, so lets run it.
>
> You will often see an advertisement on Jobnet come out through one
> agency one day and four others the next day. Surprise! {:-)
>
> Other funnies of dealing with jobnet;
> 1) the agency sends you an email saying you've already applied for the
> job three times.
> 2) that job in the CBD has suddenly relocated to Palm Beach,
> 3) A hot *nix admin job suddenly requires 5 years Win 2003 experience,
> 4) the list of requirements is two pages long and the job starts a $25K
> pa,
> 5) an entry level IT contract job pays $14/hour,
> 6) Tertiary qualifications required (MCSE preferred),
> 7) "That position has closed", but the add runs for two more weeks,
> 8) "That position has closed and they are interviewing", but the
> company
> confirms that they are still taking applications,
>
> and on and on.
>
>
> --
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> http://www.woa.com.au
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>
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