[Gllug] How do they manage it? (IT recruitment agencies)

[Lee Blackwell]

IT agencies are getting worse...

I most recently had three phone calls from BrtyeOne, trying to get me
interested in an AIX role, even after I told them I was a Solaris chap.
These people simply didn't understand that you can't just jump from
Solaris to AIX or any other platform.  Doh.

Then I laughed at them when they told me the money on offer, about 10K
less than what I get now... ;-)

On the other hand, I've dealt with Apex (London, St Pauls) and they've
placed me in two jobs.  Good people, esp. Rich Watson.

Lee

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Lee Blackwell
Unix Specialist, NCS, 3com IT.
"Marriage - It's so great to find that one special
person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Xander D Harkness wrote:

>
> I have just received another spam (Oh gosh they must have got a CV of
> mine from somewhere)
>
> I notice however that a lot of IT recruitment companies are sending
> blank emails with word attachments with the email message within. I
> guess they must have done a mail merge using Exchange 5.5
>
> 'TS European aims to support IT professionals and IT Companies in
> extending their search Europe wide for the right individual or
> opportunity that can help them to achieve their goals. We offer a highly
> personal, quality service which reflect our company values of honesty
> and integrity.'
>
> I can suggest to them that no IT professional would touch them.
>
> I also got a letter from my accountant today, he screwed up and sent me
> a word doc with some lovely logos, and unfilled data fields.  The email
> was in excess of 500kb and had no message.  I took a screen shot of it
> and sent a jpg back which was a quarter a size of his original message ;-)
>
> I was wondering what most people do to tackle this kind of stupidity?
>
> I can only imagine that this will worsen with .NET and stuff.
>
> Cheers
> Xander
>
>
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