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Their plan is to play some "Assesment center" with you a player.
Bullshit bingo with a job as main (and only) price. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Suggest a group skype meeting...
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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If they don't know how to do it, he can suggest they hire him as a consultant.
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Kevin Marois wrote: Is this guy nuts??!!
Yes.
My guess is a portion of their pay comes from how many potential recruits they talk to.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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They're just trying to make themselves feel useful
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Kevin Marois wrote: They're just trying to make themselves feel useful like they have earnt their air this month
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Say no. If he has a job for you, he will still put you up as he'll want the commission.
These agents work by getting resumes and then shopping them around.
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I accidentally called a recruiter a Hoe once.
I was replying to an email i had gotten and meant to say "Hope you've been doing well" but it auto corrected to "Hoe, you've been doing well".
Maybe it was my subconscious sneaking out.
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Best.Post.Ever.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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So now you understand why they get paid so much, right?
(sorry - I really need to add a sarcasm emoticon)
And don't even get me started on real estate agents...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I've worked with a lot of recruiters. I can honestly say that maybe 1 percent of them are worth more than sidewalk spit.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Simply say that you think it's absurd, and that you don't have the time to meet with numerous people with no benefit for you in it.
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I think you're lucky to get a reply related to the position you actually applied for. As soon as my CV gets updated on any site I get bombarded with recruiters and usually end up chatting to 1 or 2 about positions not even related to what I orginally saw.
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But the problem isn't always on the recruiter's side. I'm my department's chief engineer and as such I see some of the resumes provided by applicants (submitted both directly and through a headhunter). In many cases the qualifications and experience cited bear little relevance to the skills required for the open position.
I'll add that my shop doesn't necessarily treat the mismatch as an automatic disqualification, but it certainly doesn't help the applicant. The same was true of my PPOE (in the 1960s) where the system programming manager was a med school dropout and the lead system programmer was an architect.
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>but we're talking an hour & a half
It seems they are can not into time management at all and they still pretend they are managers.
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Ah you were talking to the manager, he was after real time training for his people. And if you think I am joking then I can assure you I'm not, it has happened to me except that was before skype and he wanted me to come in to the office to meet all his people.
I do recall this level of bullshit only seemed to happen in the UK, I don't think the Oz recruiters have the imagination, or maybe the gall to try this crap.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Recruiters rarely have an atom of knowledge of the area they are working with. Their expertise is with HR. How can someone who doesn't know anything about developing software be able to sell an applicant to a potential employer? Their best shot is to follow their rules of thumb and talk with confidence to try to hide their ignorance.
P.S. I never use recruiters, or had you guessed that?
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Yeah,
I would counter with:
Well, I value my time, and I agree it might be nice for your team to have a feel for who I am,
I do NOT see the need to get to know everyone on your team. Especially so many of them, and for
as long as you plan. Please get this down to a 15 - 20 minute meet and greet via skype, and I
would be glad to do it.
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I'm pretty sure part of their "quota" system involves x redundant interviews / emails per week.
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"No, we've met. You know me. Tell the rest of your team about it."
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Tell them no skype you will only meet in person and only if food is provided.
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Is an ugly velociraptor an eyesaur?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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