8 Jul
2015
8 Jul
'15
2:53 p.m.
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 23:39:56 +1000
From: pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com
To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
Subject: Re: [LAU] Job - Germany - Multimedia Hardware Technician
On Mon, July 6, 2015 8:42 pm, Felix Homann wrote:
Personally I don't think personality or any possible personal grudges against you has
anything to do with it! Stop with that paranoia now.
But if I was German, or even living in and willing to move to Germany, and in the market
for a new job I very much doubt I would have responded to your email. It is far too vague
and sounds like at best it will be a sales role and at worst a dubious vapour
opportunity.
Over the years I have done much work through agencies, applied for quite a lot more roles
than I've taken and been emailed a lot more that I've not been interested in at
the time. Generally you would expect full information minus the name of the company in
question, or anything that could lead directly to it within a few minutes on the internet.
Your offer had near zero real information in it!! Therefore, personally anyway, I
wouldn't consider it worth looking at further unless I was in real dire straights at
the time. Do you only want to appeal to really desperate, possibly quite umemployble (for
whatever reason) people? Or do you want the advert to appeal to the people who might
actually be good at the job?? I know which I would try and attract!
2015-07-06 12:02 GMT+02:00 Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com>om>:
Apparently it's something to do with one or all of these three main reasons.
1: Some Germans on this list aren't interested in new jobs for themselves
or their friends
2: The information is not efficient enough for some people
3: Some members don't like my personality so don't want to take it any
further
It seems like you are implying that German members of LAU don't want to
go
to the effort of sending a private email to find out more information.
They want it all to be presented in entirety on a public list.
I just take notice of the fact that - as you reported - German members
of LAU quite obviously don't want to go
to the effort of sending a private email to find out more information.
I'm offering you some insight into German employee thinking to
identify flaws in your offer that might help you understand why.
You don't seem to be interested in this information, though, and
rather choose to be a bit huffy ;-)
Maybe it's a matter of alleged German efficiency to not react on
obscure job offers unless you desperately need a job ;-)
I estimate that leaves approximately 200 or so Germans
or people who live
in Germany on the list who have not voiced an opinion. I think there is a
fair chance that at least one of them will be suitable for the role or
know someone who is. If only 5 of them are genuinely interested that would
be a pretty good selection to choose from.
Well good luck with that then....
Dale.