Journal amber_lux's Journal: Misrepresentation in "help wanted" adds 2
Why do companies Lie in their recruitment adds? At least half of the "customer service" positions on monster.com are really sales jobs. Three quarters, or more, of the "customer service" positions on HotJobs are for sales positions.
Why can't the companies just put that in the first line, and not wait till the job interview to say: "But this is a sales position."
Granted, I'm frustrated at only having one job interview in three months of unemployment. And that for a sales job I would have turned down, had I known they company was lying about the position they were offering.
Then there are companies like Live Ops that offer customer service/telemarketing positions from one's home. One needs to be able to make phone calls, whilst browsing the net. OK.
So why do they think I have to have microsoft's junk to fill out the application? Konqueror, Galeon & Mozilla took me to that stupid site, to download MIE 6.0. never mind that nothing from that stupid company works on a Linux platform.
I thought I could fill it out using Lynx, but lynx does not support Active Server pages.
Can I just call LiveOps, another dead company that does not realize that there are better alternatives out there than the junk from taht company that has yet to release any software that is either bug free, or works according to their claimed specifications.
The Advertising Standards of South Africa has a nice thing to say about the lies about their junk. Though why I did not read that in my hometown newspaper is another question.
I just took another look at one of my search agents at Monster. Changed it to show results for the whole country. 34 listings for the last thirty days, in all of the united states. No wonder I think my speciality is out of date. Half of them don't even require my speciality. They throw it in becuase it is a buzz word that sounds impressive. May handle calls that require "skill x". Blah. Sounds like inbound, but I can be fairly confident that it is outbound.
Who wants to hire somebody who can read thirty languages fluently, and is working on Chinese and Japanese. I'm stuck on the Kanji. I can read HiraGana and KataKana fairly well. These books are pretty good. I just haven't spent the two hours a day on the kanji, to remember them. Somebody joked that I would not be staisfied until I had passed Chinese Proficiency Test and Japanese Language Proficiency Test and Korean Language Proficiency Test.
Think that waving those around would do any good? Not in that bastion of monolinguilism known as the united states. OTOH, I do think that Singapore has a great business climate --- especially for what I studied at college. There, those certifications would not mean much, but would ensure that I could communicate with most of the population. If only Sharia Law were not the foundation of their legal system.
Wind under thy Wings
Amber
I must point you to... (Score:1)
http://www.fuckthatjob.com
Speaks for itself.
Yikes! (Score:1)
I just breezed over to FTJ [fuckthatjob.com] and read the stories.
I thought the spammers I interviewed back in 1997, who were paying $7.00 for Oracle Certification [oracle.com] were out of their minds. I see now that they were not the most mindless company out there.
I do remember a 1997 listing for a job with the following requirements:
At least that company was willing to pay for that experience.
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