Reply to: Agents really ought to get some techie knowledge

[PM-Junkie]

And Prince2 isn't the name of a recording artist after he/it gave up being called "an artist formerly known as prince"

[expat]

And DOS is DOS/VS and a PS/2 is an IBM PC

[darmstadt]

And SQL is not SQL Server.

And VM is not Java VM but an operating system from IBM!!!

[expat]

While we are on this subject; Javascript is not the same as Java and ASP is not the same as ASP.NET.

That drives me mental.

And SQL is not SQL Server.

[Ruprect]

...the agent was quite possibly one of the most attractive young women I have ever met, pity the missus came down with me to go shopping in the town as she asked me out to lunch (mutual pot noodle) afterwards.

are you saying what I think you're saying, or was this just a product of your overactive imagination?

[darmstadt]

In Germany they tend to do things a bit different I think. You apply for the gig and the client would like to see you. This means that first you have a meeting with the agent to get to know one another, in fact some of them do have some technical knowledge (this may just be me as I tend to work through business partners more than agencies.) Next step is a meeting with the client and the agent comes with you as well and you tend to meet with the agent throughout the contract for updates, etc.

My current, well up until today, though is not techie but rather attractive and I remember going for a gig down in Herzogenaurach and the agent was quite possibly one of the most attractive young women I have ever met, pity the missus came down with me to go shopping in the town as she asked me out to lunch (mutual pot noodle) afterwards.

[Ruprect]

but an agent would never doctor a CV

<wipes tears from eyes> No, no, you're right...course they wouldn't

[teclo]

While we are on this subject; Javascript is not the same as Java and ASP is not the same as ASP.NET.

That drives me mental.

[pmeswani]

The following is part of a job spec sent to me:



The only problem is, RDz has only been available for under a couple of years so how is anyone meant to have 5 years experience of it?

<rant>This is one thing that really gets me about job specs and speaking to agents. A job spec will have a list of hundreds of acronyms of which you will probably have quite a few yet you are not considered suitable for the position. In my eyes therefore, the only person suitable is the person you are replacing. Other times you are told that you are not suitable because these TLAs are not on your profile yet you have used them extensively because they are part and parcel of a product, i.e. ISPF GML and file tailoring. If you have written large ISPF applications then you must have used these yet agents don't know this because they don't know what they are selling. The amount of times I have had conversations with agents and had to point out that what they require is actually part of the base operating system or product so I must have used it is getting to be silly. If I put down every product and sub-product on my CV then ot would be around 40 pages long, as it is I can only get it down to 8. </rant>

They really need to know how to make Google their friend on the Interweb.

[Joe1978]

but an agent would never doctor a CV

[Ruprect]

Easiest way to circumvent this is to put on your CV that you have the requisite number of year's experience. That might get you past the agent; if someone picks you up on it in the interview, just state that it is obviously nonsense and that the agent must have doctored the CV.

[darmstadt]

Actually installing RDz at the moment so I can say that I'm now experienced in it. Don't know what to do with it afterwards as its all that new fangled Java stuff

[BrilloPad]

They are the bulltulipters.

A few contractors can give them a run for their money......

[expat]

Maybe they want to seperate out the bulltulipers?

They are the bulltulipters.

[BrilloPad]

The following is part of a job spec sent to me:



The only problem is, RDz has only been available for under a couple of years so how is anyone meant to have 5 years experience of it?

Maybe they want to seperate out the bulltulipers?