Recruiters: Ur Doin It Rong
You may or may not know this, but headhunters have changed the way they do business. It's a consequence of the Internet, mostly - but it's now almost completely driven by scripts which connect to resume posting sites, slurp them down, and auto-match them against jobs they know about (which they often get from employer's job posting sites).
Many of them are only one step up from penis enlargement peddlers.
Today I received an email from one of these recruiters whose job-to-candidate matching algorithm is horrible. I mean really horrible.
Here's the list of the first four required skills:
Why is this spam when sent to me? Because my resume shows absolutely no hint of COBOL, ECL, TIP, or DMS-2200. None. I did work at Unisys more than twenty years ago, but since then I haven't even seen a single piece of Unisys hardware, let alone programmed on it.
Oh, and just for fun? The job is in Albany, NY, and I won't relocate - and the site from which they got my resume asks about relocation willingness, so they had access to that information.
Many of them are only one step up from penis enlargement peddlers.
Today I received an email from one of these recruiters whose job-to-candidate matching algorithm is horrible. I mean really horrible.
Here's the list of the first four required skills:
- COBOL 74 and/or 85 programming on Unisys 2200 series or ClearPath mainframes
- Unisys ECL
- TIP
- DMS-2200/RDMS
Why is this spam when sent to me? Because my resume shows absolutely no hint of COBOL, ECL, TIP, or DMS-2200. None. I did work at Unisys more than twenty years ago, but since then I haven't even seen a single piece of Unisys hardware, let alone programmed on it.
Oh, and just for fun? The job is in Albany, NY, and I won't relocate - and the site from which they got my resume asks about relocation willingness, so they had access to that information.