Pointless agents

[krankyd]

I believe it's mentioned with 3.1 and windows 95 over 10 years ago.

[NotAllThere]

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.

While I completely agree that it's not worth getting upset about - just add the agency to your spammer list - the idea that one day you'd need them made me laugh.

You can be as nasty to agents as you like. But if they think they can make money from you, they'll happily swallow their pride and take you one.

NotAllThere

[Old Greg]

While I completely agree that it's not worth getting upset about - just add the agency to your spammer list - the idea that one day you'd need them made me laugh.

You can be as nasty to agents as you like. But if they think they can make money from you, they'll happily swallow their pride and take you one.

NotAllThere

Well, I suppose I work in a sector in which very few agencies operate, so I need to stay on reasonable terms with them.

[Growernotashower]

Is this any different to 150 contractors sending in irrelevant CV's in response to an job ad?

[krankyd]

Is this any different to 150 contractors sending in irrelevant CV's in response to an job ad?

Yes. Because this is very rare.

[Growernotashower]

that should be in light relief under "post more jokes here!"

[Cowboy Bob]

Yes. Because this is very rare.

To be fair here, my current agent (who is actually really good and doesn't do this) and I were having a laugh about this a while back. I was saying exactly what you were saying about agents not seemingly being able to read CVs, and she said that they often get 100s of CVs for a particular job placement on Jobserve that bear no relation to the job ad, so she finally countered with the fact that most contractors seem to be unable to read job adverts.

[TheFaQQer]

I've just had an email asking

Please call me on the office number below ASAP as I have a role that suits your skills perfectly. The role is a 6 month Contract for a Portal Solution Architect.

Unfortunately, I'm in contract, know nothing about portal, and am not a solution architect. I've never worked with Portal, so no idea where that one came from!