Reply to: New way to recruit. Help needed !

[Joe Black.]

PM him and he'll tell you, probably

No. You PM him ask him then PM me. Then I'll post the answer in this thread.

[MrsGoof]

Yeah I agree with you. Is Iprofile what the guy (who started this thread) is suggesting?

PM him and he'll tell you, probably

[Fleetwood]

...ps : Does your Angel do a turn ?

She does several "turns", Bob.
Put "Clara Morgane" into Google images and see a few of her tricks. NSFW.

[BobTheCrate]

My sentiments exactly, Bob.

... and you forgot to mention perfect spelling too.

ps : Does your Angel do a turn ?

[Fleetwood]

I do not believe finding the best candidates is all about collating narrow, predefined skills and placing them within a ring fenced box.

My sentiments exactly, Bob.

[BobTheCrate]

Judging from his posts ... no he isn't.

[Joe Black.]

I don't know iProfile (heard of it though) but seems to me it's just one more piece of tulipe that attempts to alleviate the need for recruitment agents and HR recruiters to actually 'think' about candidates and make 'professional judgements'.

I do not believe finding the best candidates is all about collating narrow, predefined skills and placing them within a ring fenced box.

Yeah I agree with you. Is Iprofile what the guy (who started this thread) is suggesting?

[BobTheCrate]

I don't know iProfile (heard of it though) but seems to me it's just one more piece of tulipe that attempts to alleviate the need for recruitment agents and HR recruiters to actually 'think' about candidates and make 'professional judgements'.

I do not believe finding the best candidates is all about collating narrow, predefined skills and placing them within a ring fenced box.

[Fleetwood]

I think I-Profile really is a load of old wank, it's soooo user-unfriendly, and what, ATEOTD, does it do that a search of CVs in a Word/RTF format doesn't?

[BlasterBates]

How are we supposed to pinch your idea if you don't tell us what it is.

[Mordac]

I have no problem with companies that use iProfile provided that they don't expect me to fill it in. Fill in, in my case, means add all the new sections that aren't there already, many of which, for my skill set, are pretty basic things which should have been there but aren't. How someone can use such a tool to resource a person in my area of technology when none of the key-words exist in the tool I fail to understand.

tim

I spent a miserable few hours once going through all my iprofiles (I had 18 at one point) and removing the fact that I was a Telecoms Project Manager (I'm not, but some idiot saw the words "Telecoms" and "Project Manager" and decided I ought to be one). Next day I checked back and nothing had been saved. I still get calls from Iprofile agencies with roles which are nothing to do with my skillset, thanks to the wanky system they are using.

[tim123]

Oh Dear. It's IProfile, arguably (no, definitely) the crappiest recruitment system ever devised. I've had to threaten these idiots with the DPA to get my (wrong) details removed. Now I won't touch agencies who use it. Saves a lot of aggro.

I have no problem with companies that use iProfile provided that they don't expect me to fill it in. Fill in, in my case, means add all the new sections that aren't there already, many of which, for my skill set, are pretty basic things which should have been there but aren't. How someone can use such a tool to resource a person in my area of technology when none of the key-words exist in the tool I fail to understand.

tim

[Fungus]

These contractors (probably have to include myself in that) are elitist, egomaniac 5 year olds with ability to use big words and spell correctly

Most cannot use big words or spell correctly. Some don't even smell correctly. Otherwise you're spot on. Now what was the point of this thread?

[Dundeegeorge]

sasguru "The Biggest and Bestest Guru".

FFS learn to spell

sasguru "The Biggest and Bestest *****".
It's not difficult!

[giles guest]

Goodnight

Well that's me done for the day.

Thanks to the people who have said they'd help. If anyone else wants to please PM me or email me. I really do appreciate the help.

And it has been an experience posting to this forum - that's for sure.

If I ever get accused of being an agent again I shall hunt the contractor down and insert a sharp COM object into a place that not even .net 3 can reach !!

Have a good weekend.