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I HATE recrutiment consultants. Their amoung a set of 'professionals' that try to be all pally with you, but wouldn't pee on you if you were on fire!
Recriutment consultants and Estate agents, IMHO, are complete scum; their the sort of folk that did get an education, but in something about as useful as a book on BASIC, you know the sort of thing: painting by numbers or National Lottery studies, and as a result they have decided to make it damn hard work for you to find a decent job or a home that you could be proud of.
Dylan Kenneally
London, UK
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I would agree that most recruitment agencies don't know much about technical things. Half the jobs they offred me was either not interesting at all for me, or requiring much more experience and knowledge than what I had on my CV.
But the advantage is that they know the market better than I do and have been able to get me a much better rate of interviews than what I had by contacting people through direct letters or through Online jobs (even though I was looking for very recent jobs that usually where not out of date).
I didn't had any chance for knowledge as I was just arriving in the country (Ireland).
At the end, I got a good job (not as paid as I hoped at first, the market was already going down, but really interesting) from one of them. So even if they don't know anything about technical matters, they can be very useful to get contacts in a place you are not familiar with.
Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns.
- Carl Gundlach
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The thing that I hate about recruiting agencies is that they feel that they need to sell me to their client and the other services that they supply. I feel that I sell myself very well, I really only need the recruiters to find me the companies that have job openings.
The last round of job searching that I did was tough. I considered going to a few recruiting agencies, but what I would usually find is the jobs that they posted on their websites, were simply copied directly from the target companies websites.
So with a little web-search I could usually find the company and contact them directly, potentially increasing the amount of my salary if I were to get that job.
The only time I have considered talking to recruiting agencies is for contract jobs that were only listed through the recruiter.
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day Light a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life!
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I found my current job using an online job platform, it's better than looking in newspapers, because you can get more info on the job and the company
When I was young my mother told me to clean up my room, I told her -1!
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Well, it was the opposite for me. The jobs posted on the papers(on certain days only) have much more information than those online. Perhaps this varies in different countries.
Weiye, Chen
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Stefan Spenz wrote:
online job platform
Which one?
I'm not a real reverend, I just play one on CP.
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It was a german platform, JobPilot24[^]
When I was young my mother told me to clean up my room, I told her -1!
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What happened to the previous poll, lasted only one day?
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It was kind of ambiguous.
Todd Smith
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Nishant S wrote:
Well, considering that you have a history of active-poll-removal I don't see why you were so surprised
Right...
Nishant S wrote:
p.s. You remember how you once made a big fuss about continuos .NET polls and got one removed after 18 hours?
Sure I do. I only hope that would become a standard procedure and any polls about .NET would get removed so quick.
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God, my memory's gone to Hell.
I can't even remember what the poll was yesterday.
Must be the VB.NET syntax I've been staring at ...
Cheers,
Simon
"Sign up for a chance to be among the first to experience the wrath of the gods.", Microsoft's home page (24/06/2002)
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SimonS wrote:
Must be the VB.NET syntax I've been staring at ...
Yup, that would rot your brain alright.
It was to do with what you'd look for in a software vendor.
Christian
We're just observing the seasonal migration from VB to VC. Most of these birds will be killed by predators or will die of hunger. Only the best will survive - Tomasz Sowinski 29-07-2002 ( on the number of newbie posters in the VC forum )
Cats, and most other animals apart from mad cows can write fully functional vb code. - Simon Walton - 6-Aug-2002
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...was not really for programmers, imho.
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