Reply to: And todays award for most inaccurately targeted email goes to

[Old Greg]

Spuddy? Ziggy? oPM? JtB? Vetty?

Did I miss anyone

They don't have an area of competence, so what do you expect them to do?

[Whorty]

I couldn't understand why someone would keep applying for roles so far outside their area of expertise or competence.

Spuddy? Ziggy? oPM? JtB? Vetty?

Did I miss anyone

[ladymuck]

Go to the next CUK social event, and much will become clear...

So true! How I've managed to blag it all these years is a mystery

[Mordac]

In a similar vein, I was once helping to recruit a Head of Development, with a specialism in customer systems like CRM etc.

Had one person send in their CV who was a film production assistant. Her whole career had been in media and it was obvious she didn't know the first thing about IT never mind running a large-ish dev team.

Through the client's application tracking system, we could see she had previously applied for multiple Head Of roles in IT as well as other functions.

I couldn't understand why someone would keep applying for roles so far outside their area of expertise or competence.

Go to the next CUK social event, and much will become clear...

[Mordac]

Yeh. Quick flip through "Nuclear Plants for Dummies" in bed. Easy.

Trouble is, the location (Portsmouth) would tend to indicate there's a military aspect (possibly something to do with submarines). Suity might as well watch *that episode* of the Simpsons for all the use it would be...

[edison]

In a similar vein, I was once helping to recruit a Head of Development, with a specialism in customer systems like CRM etc.

Had one person send in their CV who was a film production assistant. Her whole career had been in media and it was obvious she didn't know the first thing about IT never mind running a large-ish dev team.

Through the client's application tracking system, we could see she had previously applied for multiple Head Of roles in IT as well as other functions.

I couldn't understand why someone would keep applying for roles so far outside their area of expertise or competence.

[xoggoth]

Just how hard can nuclear be?

Yeh. Quick flip through "Nuclear Plants for Dummies" in bed. Easy.

[CheeseSlice]

Best one was the guy who sent me the same ad every week for about 10 weeks. For some sort of engineer specialising in waster water or something. Looks like his search engine found me because one of my clients had the word "water" in its title.

You should have applied for it and acted with genuine interest.

Best case, the agent puts your CV forward, then he gets sacked and has to go back to flipping burgers for a living.

Worst case scenario, you get the gig and have to unblock drains, remove fatbergs, etc.

[psychocandy]

I had one guy who sent me loads of jobs with the word "administrator" in the title. Im a Sys Admin.

Office admin, accounts admin etc - common thing was it was a few miles from me.

Best one was the guy who sent me the same ad every week for about 10 weeks. For some sort of engineer specialising in waster water or something. Looks like his search engine found me because one of my clients had the word "water" in its title.

[Hobosapien]

Venn Group. There is absolutely noting in this ad that matches anything anywhere on my CV.

Obviously their Venn diagram has you in the 'no match but the CV may be out of date so we'll take a punt that a match would occur if we had an up to date CV' segment.

Alternatively, they just spam everyone on their contact list as it's easier than doing any real work.

[BrilloPad]

There's only one way to find out.

I suppose it might knock B****t off the top of the news sites. For 10 minutes.

[Old Greg]

Suity and nuclear materials. What could possibly go wrong...?

There's only one way to find out.

[Mordac]

Hopefully it wasn't sent to Suity.

Suity and nuclear materials. What could possibly go wrong...?

[Old Greg]

Venn Group. There is absolutely noting in this ad that matches anything anywhere on my CV.

Hopefully it wasn't sent to Suity.

[edison]

Just how hard can nuclear be?

I might send one of my ex-wives along for the gig.

Just mention the words agile, cloud, digital transformation and AI and you'll be fine.