Demystifying Agency Job Advert Terms

[Zippy]

Evangelist

Shouty, boring w*nker

[suityou01]

Working to strict deadlines :

We broke the last 6 incumbents by sucking the life out of them and setting impossible deadlines. Don't apply unless you are prepared to sell your soul for 6 months to work around the clock to bail us out of this overpromised, underresourced cluster**** of a project.

[SimonMac]

No recruitment experience necessary

Any idiot can be an agent

[Mich the Tester]

No recruitment experience necessary

Any idiot can be an agent

I beg to disagree. I contend that a special kind of idiot is best suited to being an agent.

[vetran]

Working to strict deadlines :

We broke the last 6 incumbents by sucking the life out of them and setting impossible deadlines. Don't apply unless you are prepared to sell your soul for 6 months to work around the clock to bail us out of this overpromised, underresourced cluster**** of a project.

Better known as "doing a Suity"!

[suityou01]

Better known as "doing a Suity"!

Oh not any more Vetran, not any more.

[MyUserName]

Oh not any more Vetran, not any more.

They fired you?

[suityou01]

They exalt you?

FTFY

[SueEllen]

Urgent requirement The client has been looking for the past 18 months, can't hire someone who needs a Visa, the last permie they tried to make do the work left, and the client has finally put the rate up to a market level. Oh and it will still take them a month to give you work once you are on-site.

[EvolutionSPM]

Great thread, here my contribution.

Good Customer Facing Skills
We have really p****d our customers in the past and need to someone to take the s**t from them going forward.