another misguided recruiter

[cellio]

Like many others, I get lots of unsolicited email from recruiters who claim to have read my LinkedIn profile and have a great opportunity for me. They're almost always wrong about both. But I usually skim the tech-writing ones when they arrive, to (maybe) learn a little about the state of the field.

The latest one, about a "fast-paced innovative team", started off generic, as most of them do. (Hint to recruiters: if you want me to respond, give me a reason to. I'm not actively looking; you have to show me something interesting.) But the list of responsibilities included "work with architecture and UX teams to understand how best to organize and present the documentation" -- hey, they have a UX team! That's unusual (in a positive way). I kept reading.

Then I got to the requirements, which included:

• Experience with Cobol
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office

Ha ha, no.

Also, it's in New Jersey and the ad doesn't say anything about remote employees. Bzzt.

Comments

[metahacker]

Oh boy. Recruiter pattern matching, even worse than usual pattern matching...

I got one that started "We see you have experience as $title at $job. Our matching algorithms identified you as a great candidate for $client's open position: Entry Level Positions Open - Immediate Hire."

Um...yeah. Gonna go with "you need to upgrade your algorithms" and also "fix your data scraping algorithms"...

[cellio]

Entry level. *Snort*. I suppose expecting a human to actually review the algorithm's conclusions would cut into their profits too much. After all, bothering large numbers of people who are not your target is offset by a single nibble from one who is. That's why spam, phishing, and other scams work -- only need one sucker per million, or something. :-(