Recruitment Consultants

[BrianSnail]

If only there were some sort of globally searchable resource you could use. Something which could be accessed from anywhere.....

Oooh, oooh....I think I know this one!! A telephone operator??

[tino]

If only there were some sort of globally searchable resource you could use. Something which could be accessed from anywhere.....

Plan B opportunity?

[Scary]

Got this one through today:
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The system architecture consists of a wide range of technologies with predominantly C++ components on Windows server platform, with some components written in C#, Java and VB, and running on the Linux platform.
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Running VB components on Linux...

P.s. I know there are ways and means, but you just wouldn't...

[SneakySimon]

100's of Applications

Removed.

[DodgyAgent]

Ok, some perspective needs to be found here. Fact is, as a previous hiring managers for contractors as well as having seen some of the 100's of CV's for jobs applied for (my friend is a a pimp and showed me the CV's that applied for the same role as mine) of the CV's I looked at, some were complete rubbish.

Pictures of the conntractor (concerning),
Typo's (not good when you can't be bothered to check)
they focused on the wrong skills for the job they were applying for (a PM role in banking and you send an engineering PM CV with no attempt at offering transferable skills)
CV's that were waaaaay to long - some 8 pages (a riveting read!)
Awful italics and mixed fonts / sized (hurt my eyes!)
Too much info about hobbies (I don't care if you walk every weekend)

Essentially what I am saying is, look at your CV - if someone is reciving 100's of this crap then the first ten they find, they will select and save themselves a pain. People with the dodgy CV's may be great, but if you can't send a CV that is good, then really, your not going to impress anyone.

A lot of CVs that are sent are done so speculatively often on the back of a job for which the candidate is not suitable. Whilst I agree that there are a lot of poor CVs floating around, it is our job as agents to ensure that you guys dont see them in the first place.
Anyway I like reading about contractors hobbies

[KentPhilip]

Anyway I like reading about contractors hobbies

You must have read about some interesting hobbies DodgyAgent. Care to tell us about any that made your hair stand on end? And were you inspired to take it up?

[DodgyAgent]

You must have read about some interesting hobbies DodgyAgent. Care to tell us about any that made your hair stand on end? And were you inspired to take it up?

Much as I would like to share some of the many sometimes funny, but often a bit sad snippets, I would not want to embarrass any contractors who might recognise their own CVs being laughed at on this site.

[lightng]

You must have read about some interesting hobbies DodgyAgent. Care to tell us about any that made your hair stand on end? And were you inspired to take it up?

Probably something like...

Interests: President of the Gay Paranormal Society. We meet regularly and put the w1ll1es up each other.

IGMC

[foggo]

We are not all the same.. what the article was missing what the real motives are for doing this and it is not to have a good database it is purely messuring to see if the market is picking up, it is a terrible way of conducting business in the market place it looks like its the only way. If it makes contractors feel any better the industry has let go over half of the recruitment consultants in the market place but the unfortunate thing about it is the people that have been laid of are the morale people that actually did the job properly and not lie..

I hope they (shed parasites) all sod off into AOR music middle-market-place where their degree of productivity will fit right in the bell-curve

[expat]

Ok, some perspective needs to be found here. Fact is, as a previous hiring managers for contractors as well as having seen some of the 100's of CV's for jobs applied for (my friend is a a pimp and showed me the CV's that applied for the same role as mine) of the CV's I looked at, some were complete rubbish.

Pictures of the conntractor (concerning),
Typo's (not good when you can't be bothered to check)
they focused on the wrong skills for the job they were applying for (a PM role in banking and you send an engineering PM CV with no attempt at offering transferable skills)
CV's that were waaaaay to long - some 8 pages (a riveting read!)
Awful italics and mixed fonts / sized (hurt my eyes!)
Too much info about hobbies (I don't care if you walk every weekend)

Essentially what I am saying is, look at your CV - if someone is reciving 100's of this crap then the first ten they find, they will select and save themselves a pain. People with the dodgy CV's may be great, but if you can't send a CV that is good, then really, your not going to impress anyone.

Hmm. I am puzzled.

Pictures of the conntractor (concerning),
What is concerning about that? It is common in a CV, and in many EU countries obligatory. If you don't put a picture on your CV in France they will wonder why not, as they bin it.

Typo's (not good when you can't be bothered to check)
OK, you mean like "typo's" for "typos"? Sorry, hard to resist.

they focused on the wrong skills for the job they were applying for (a PM role in banking and you send an engineering PM CV with no attempt at offering transferable skills)
Perhaps they felt that PM experience itself was the transferable skill? Wouldn't you want to ask? Whoever is qualifying the CVs should look into that if they're doing their job.

CV's that were waaaaay to long - some 8 pages (a riveting read!)
I've done 16 contracts, and 4 permie jobs of which 2 were in software houses with over 10 clients in my experience there. How short should I make my CV? I have often cut my CV down to less than 8 pages, only to be told "I don't see your XXX experience here". Somehow my reply that I cut it out for brevity doesn't often go down well.


Frankly I feel that your attitude is part of the problem, your experience seems not to have given you a wide enough insight.