Demystifying Agency Job Advert Terms

[Spacecadet]

Rate Neg.
Rate will be as little as possible

Market Rates.
Rate will be as little as possible

Rate Dependent upon experience
Rate will be as little as possible

£X-Y depending on experience
Rate will be as little as possible, probably X

Junior Position
Don't even think about it unless its a 30 second walk from your front door to the office. A commute by bus and a sandwich from the canteen would leave you out of pocket

Senior Position
Need someone to take tulip for 6 months. Preference given to the inexperienced who want the word "senior" on their CV and willing to work for sub optimal rates

£100 per day
Only advertising it due to legal requirements before placing a long distance call to India (speed dial 1)

£500 per day
There is no job, we just want CVs and references

[Bunk]

Exciting new startup
Client has no money. Rate will be as little as possible (if they don't go bust).

[Troll]

Application considered from candidates who require a work visa

Lets see if we can get a Bob cheaper

[MyUserName]

Committed

You should be if you apply for this

[Troll]

£500+ per day
Does anyone know if Troll is looking for work?

FTFY

[DodgyAgent]

[SimonMac]

Senior Position
Need someone to take tulip for 6 months. Preference given to the inexperienced who want the word "senior" on their CV and willing to work for sub optimal rates

Ah, the Suity juxtaposition

[cojak]

Application considered from candidates who require a work visa

Lets see if we can get a Bob cheaper

And we'll pull the ad 1hour after we've posted it.

[BolshieBastard]

Rate Neg.
Rate will be as little as possible

Market Rates.
Rate will be as little as possible

Rate Dependent upon experience
Rate will be as little as possible

£X-Y depending on experience
Rate will be as little as possible, probably X

Junior Position
Don't even think about it unless its a 30 second walk from your front door to the office. A commute by bus and a sandwich from the canteen would leave you out of pocket

Senior Position
Need someone to take tulip for 6 months. Preference given to the inexperienced who want the word "senior" on their CV and willing to work for sub optimal rates

£100 per day
Only advertising it due to legal requirements before placing a long distance call to India (speed dial 1)

£500 per day
There is no job, we just want CVs and references

Think you missed

Competitive rate
Rate will be as little as possible

Current Security Clearance required
You've no fracking chance if you dont have SC

[MyUserName]

Core skills required: Fx AND Forex
We have no idea that these are the same things, apparently our client does not either but they are a hightly sought after investment bank at the cutting edge of 20 year old legacy systems.

Core skills required:
C++, C#, WPF, WCF, .NET, Java, C, TFS, Windows, Linux, Unix, Mainframe, UFOs, MFI, Scripting languages (all), OOD, OOM, FFS, whatever else you have heard of but one version newer.

... actually I don't know. I have no idea what rationale agents have for requirment lists like this.