The whispering is all in her head and says she sucks

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    I’m going to take a stab and say she’s a recruiter for a third party staffing company.

    They REQUIRE word docs so that they can copy and paste or edit your resume on their template.

    Pro tip: take the requirements that they send you and Google search for it. Apply directly with the company and cut them out.

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      I mean her profile says she works for “First Search” which sound like a middle man for sure.

      And “Chief Candidate Whisperer”? Wtf. Don’t get me started.

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      Unless you open the pdf in gimp or something (and it’s not just a photo, which would be equally bad in a word document) you should be able to copy from a PDF too.

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        Yeah, I don’t know how to say this nicely, but my experience so far is that HR people are not* exactly the sharpest knives in the kitchen…

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          Had Javascript on my resume, and the recruiter send me to an interview for a Java programming job…

          The other one asked me to take an online test about cryptography algorithms in node js for a prescreening interview, which is something I never even remotely had to deal with in more than 20 years working for multiple e-commerce, health systems, CMS and other services and websites. Also, no Google or any online sources allowed to solve their questions…

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            I think most recruiters are legitimately stupid.

            Most of them certainly have no business recruiting for people in industries they’ve never worked in and can’t really comprehend the requirements for.

    • ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
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      I have great experience with third party recruiters. I only ever had to send them a CV (as PDF!) and they took care of the rest. I just had to go to the interview. The company hired and payed for the recruiter so for me it’s a win.

      Granted, in my last two job searches I never looked for open positions myself, I answered messages from recruiters in my inbox. So it’s more that they were applying to me. Most messages can be ignored because the recruiters have no idea what they are talking about.