| ??? 04/09/10 08:43 Read: times |
#174935 - Agency != Employer Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Jez Smith said:
I had an interesting call the other day from an agency Stop right there! The Agency is not the employer! Far, far too often, agencies are just doing text-matching on keywords; eg, I get loads of enquiries about UNIX System Administrate roles - simply because my CV mentions that I've used UNIX as a development host environment! And, of course, the agencies want to justify their comission by saying, "look what super candidates we've found for you!" |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Do employers know what they are asking for? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Of course, they don't | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| often enough, they don't know what the acronyms mean | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| HR shouldn't try to evaluate competence | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Well at my new job | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I stumbled over this laughable example | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Really important to protect company names | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Agency != Employer | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not always the case | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Better to just ask for any additional skills | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| what I have found is ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| non-technical MBAs in technical management positions | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Maybe not ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The other issue.. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Maybe ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
Well ... I don't know the answer ... | 01/01/70 00:00 |