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I can hardly think of a better way to advertise that you only want young people to apply than to advertise for a guru rockstar gamechanging ninja who is awesome and wants a vague job description.
What I'd really like to see, is a recruiter who actually looked at my resume from beginning to end before contacting me. Finally, just a few minutes ago, I put a vacation response in my gmail account: Dear Friend, Thank you for writing, I'll get back to you soon. If you are an agency recruiter seeking to place me in a job or contract position, please be advised that I find my own work. Please take me off your mailing…
Well that's going to be annoying for anyone e-mailing you that isn't a recruiter.
What I'd really like to see, is a recruiter who actually looked at my resume from beginning to end before contacting me. Finally, just a few minutes ago, I put a vacation response in my gmail account: Dear Friend, Thank you for writing, I'll get back to you soon. If you are an agency recruiter seeking to place me in a job or contract position, please be advised that I find my own work. Please take me off your mailing…
(I was nominally responsible for a Clearcase installation for six months in 2001. I mentioned it on my CV in 2002. I still get the occasional ping from those last, last few Clearcase shops, desperate for someone who will admit to ever having touched it.)
Best job description I ever wrote. This was while I was a Microsoft building a new team. Are you a lazy program manager who could care less about PCs, devices, networking, and other technologies in the home? Have you always dreaded working on a product that you would LOVE to use? Do you yearn to work in a huge, lumbering, group working on the same old stuff forever? If so, have we got a job for you! We are looking fo…
I hadn't realized that Microsoft encouraged that degree of honesty or introspection. Did you actually post that anywhere?
I got 11 solid leads, and 2 of those turned into hires.
More here: http://ceklog.kindel.com/2011/10/27/my-best-hiring-stunt-to-...
I'm looking for the kind of job where I can stare out the window all day long, but then write one single subroutine that just works the very first time, and that not only is compliant to spec, but exceeds expectation. Rock stars blow their royalties and ticket sales up their noses, sleep with groupies, trash hotel rooms and die young.
back in the day, some clueless manager posted to usenet that he was looking for a coder who could - I swear I'm not making this up! - "write 1000 lines of code per day". I'm sure you can visualize all the responses that were posted.
Clearly this was a lose-lose proposition.
Hilariously, I naively took them at their word and described amongst other observations how their application used far too many HTTP requests (i.e. they weren't using concatenation) and that the page size was phenomenally large.
Needless to say I got no response.
Another time an in-house recruiter for a company that creates a light-blue VOIP client that everyone uses, mentioned that there were free soft drinks and that the executive management were really down to earth. At which point I moved the phone away from my mouth, took a breath and regained my composure.
The level of detail goes both ways, though. The vast majority of people who apply don't even submit a pgp resume, which gives the impression that they didnt read the job description.
I would like for them to hire a professional writer. It seems more common to cut and past.
I cannot tell if that's a pun or typo..
I've been tracking[1] the use of "passionate" in whoishiring threads, really getting out of control. It's now become one of the 10 most frequent terms used in posts. [1] http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/2014/...