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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?
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Is a velociraptor who ate ghost peppers a megasoreass?
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Books that lie to children, and tell them dinosaurs lived only "millions and millions of year ago" are an eyesore. The Taung Child is a skull found of a human baby in South Africa with raptor markings on the skull surface and eye sockets. Inventing myths about dinosaurs is a key brainwashing technique for evolution. Many areas of Africa have elusive dinosaurs to this day based on eyewitness reports from tribes and missionaries alike. Along with giant 5 foot spiders "J'bo Fofi" etc.. Evolution is a colossal lie-a-saurus.
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Those mushrooms really aren't good for him, are they? 
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Member 12733523 wrote: Books that lie to children
Like The Bi..., oh nevermind.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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and if they bite their prey on the butt, does that make the prey a stegasoreass?
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Yer thinkin of the Megasoreass.
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Only under trexceptional circumstances.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Is a dinosaur that eats Little Women a Brontë-saurus?
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Is a camouflaged dinosaur a Doyathinkhesaurus?
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