26 Aug
2006
26 Aug
'06
7:33 a.m.
On 8/26/06, Tracey Hytry <shakti(a)bayarea.net> wrote:
We live out here in the valley where the headhunters
are still trying to
recover from the last bust.
It's hard when you have the outlook of a car salesperson trying to sell
people to companies. First they have to get companies to trust them, and
then have to present the most sparkling people to them. And oh, there is
the spam advertising of your services!
The problem is, most of it's a big charade. The companies overstate what
they need, trying to to get some decent talent into what could be a rather
mundane job; and the headhunters encourage the would be employees to
pad(shine up) their resumes.
Sometimes it can be said that these salespeople are a necessary evil, but I
see them more like the people that are taking 4 or 5 percent of the sale of
a house just because they know who to refer the buyer to to close the deal.
Sorry for being a little sarcastic here.
Tracey.
As some one who has just finished a 3 month contract and will be
looking for work again soon I can say... they are evil.... EVIL! There
is so much lies and so little info that it's amazing. I one applied
for a "C programming job" which said they were looking for a linux guy
from the traditional hacker culture good with gdb/etc, where i did a 2
hour interview where they asked me incredibly basic questions about
inheritance and encapsulation and other OO style slop. After these 2
hours the total idiot told me they really didn't have a c job, it was
actually a website job involving javascript and interactive web
design, <insert extra buzzwords and TLA's here> but that i seemed
perfect for it.... EVIL. ;)
Loki