Pointless agents

[krankyd]

Had another one this morning. Bearing in mind I've been working in Unix for large financials for going on 6-7 years...

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They are looking for someone with experience of Supporting Windows Operating systems and someone who is good with customers and staff.

The salary range is negotiable but is between 22K and 25K together with a company vehicle.
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I mailed them back to advise them to look at my CV before contacting me, and lo and behold - another snotty mail calling me pompus!!

Recruitment agents - don't you just love them..www.(film with michael cane in africa)recruitment.co.uk

[DodgyAgent]

Had another one this morning. Bearing in mind I've been working in Unix for large financials for going on 6-7 years...

>>
They are looking for someone with experience of Supporting Windows Operating systems and someone who is good with customers and staff.

The salary range is negotiable but is between 22K and 25K together with a company vehicle.
>>


I mailed them back to advise them to look at my CV before contacting me, and lo and behold - another snotty mail calling me pompus!!

Recruitment agents - don't you just love them..www.(film with michael cane in africa)recruitment.co.uk

It sounds like you also do not have the "good with customers or staff" bit either.

[Old Greg]

Why don't you just thank them politely but decline it as unsuitable. You may need them one day and they may remember you.

I just spent a few days on the bench and I had some odd calls for unsuitable jobs, but it's not worth getting worked up over - it's business, not personal.

[krankyd]

It sounds like you also do not have the "good with customers or staff" bit either.

Is it that hard for someone to actually look at my CV instead of taking the shotgun method for mailing people about jobs?

You've gone to all the bother of signing up to monster/jobserver or whoever and get a list of people. Please spend no more than 5 minutes of your time checking that people are either interested in roles, or they have job experience that is relevant to the roles!

It's not that hard. really.

Well, apparently it is for about 85-90 % of agents.

[DodgyAgent]

Is it that hard for someone to actually look at my CV instead of taking the shotgun method for mailing people about jobs?

You've gone to all the bother of signing up to monster/jobserver or whoever and get a list of people. Please spend no more than 5 minutes of your time checking that people are either interested in roles, or they have job experience that is relevant to the roles!

It's not that hard. really.

Well, apparently it is for about 85-90 % of agents.

Do you have Unix on your CV?

[darmstadt]

I don't know, I got one for the following skill set:

Three years Minimum experience
ISEB Foundation Certificate
Experience of working on Large Systems
MS Office skills
An appreciation of the Testing lifecycle
SQL
UNIX
Oracle
Rational Robot
HTML, VBScript, Test Director, QTP, Loadrunner, Winrunner, Windows

and this was appended:

You have received this email after certain key word searches have identified you as a possible candidate. This was followed by a number of filter processes to ensure that you are not currently working for Modis International or that we have placed you in your current role. Due to the fact that on rare occasions some information is duplicated on our database, some people may receive information that is not applicable to them. Please accept my apologies if this is the case.

I don't have any of the above skills although 3 of the words probably appear in my CV (such as Windows which I think you need to put in nowadays just to show that you can use a PC!)

[krankyd]

Do you have Unix on your CV?

Yes.
Even under past roles as `unix consultant`.

[TheFaQQer]

I don't know, I got one for the following skill set:

Three years Minimum experience
ISEB Foundation Certificate
Experience of working on Large Systems
MS Office skills
An appreciation of the Testing lifecycle
SQL
UNIX
Oracle
Rational Robot
HTML, VBScript, Test Director, QTP, Loadrunner, Winrunner, Windows

and this was appended:

You have received this email after certain key word searches have identified you as a possible candidate. This was followed by a number of filter processes to ensure that you are not currently working for Modis International or that we have placed you in your current role. Due to the fact that on rare occasions some information is duplicated on our database, some people may receive information that is not applicable to them. Please accept my apologies if this is the case.

I don't have any of the above skills although 3 of the words probably appear in my CV (such as Windows which I think you need to put in nowadays just to show that you can use a PC!)

They obviously found "An" "of" and "the" in your CV and thought you'd be a match!

[DodgyAgent]

Yes.
Even under past roles as `unix consultant`.

sorry, I meant do you have "windows" on your CV?

[DBA_bloke]

sorry, I meant do you have "windows" on your CV?

So easily confused.