Reply to: Patronising Job Specs - Avoid?

[Zylon]

Haha, I noticed the poor grammar of the advert too, but thought better than to mention it. In an online discussion of spelling/grammar everybody loses in the end ;-)


Interesting to see the range of opinions here. I totally understand the frustration of the manager / recruiter, but I personally think it'll fail to deter the poor quality applicants in the slightest.

When I first recruited and hadn't learned the pitfalls, I remember spending 20+ minutes on the phone with a promising candidate only to discover he was only interested in contracting for what was very clearly described as a perm role. I cursed myself and politely thanked him for wasting both our time. He applied to the very next perm role that came out too...

[MrMarkyMark]

A little harsh.

We will take Mr Bright, plenty of conveniences to be cleaned on the basement floor.

We like to feel that we are cutting edge cool here

[northernladuk]

Perhaps the manager can allow himself to behave arrogantly, because they company realy cool.

[Elliegirl]

It's not professional sent a CV with spelling and grammar errors, but there is some job spec that is not perfect and this one is one of them, ironic.

Bee, I'm going to take a wild guess that you speak at least two languages, for which I salute you and say nobody's perfect, but what's wrong with the job spec?

[northernladuk]

It's not professional sent a CV with spelling and grammar errors, but there is some job spec that is not perfect and this one is one of them, ironic.

[MrMarkyMark]

I would say to both if you don't have anything constructive to say don't say anything.

Maybe try taking a leaf out of your own book first

[Bee]

Should have bolded the whole post...

I would say to both if you don't have anything constructive to say don't say anything.

[FrontEnder]

Should have bolded the whole post...

[Bee]

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[MrMarkyMark]

It's not professional sent a CV with spelling and grammar errors, but there is some job spec that is not perfect and this one is one of them, ironic.

[Bee]

It's not professional sent a CV with spelling and grammar errors, but there is some job spec that is not perfect and this one is one of them, ironic.

[Elliegirl]

Last year I started a thread asking why there were so many BAs out there, as I'd seen adverts with more than 300 applicants. I'm not a BA by the way, I think I was nosing around at the time.

One person responded that they had been trying to recruit a permie BA at his place but were deluged by "chancers with little or no experience". He mentioned it was common for a business person to be seconded onto a project for 6 months, and then try and pass themselves off as a BA to another organisation. Seems to me under those circumstances the recruiter is quite reasonably trying to save themselves a load of work and grief.

[MrMarkyMark]

For someone to write that, they must be pretty frustrated with the type of CV they get for BA roles.

I often suffer the same, the inability of a lot of "BAs" to write a decent specification for build is really quite shocking..

In fact I usually end up providing more value to the required analysis than most BAs.

[jmo21]

What's your view? Ignore such pettiness, or is it a sign of a dysfunctional team/poor manager?

For someone to write that, they must be pretty frustrated with the type of CV they get for BA roles.

[pauldee]

Maybe this job spec just gives you some kind of idea about the kind of competition you're up against?