IT Rectuiment

[Mr Recruiter]

Hey guys,

I just thought I would put a quick post on here to let everyone know that if you need any advice in regards to IT roles, Resumes, rates please ask. I work for an IT recuitment specialist and will be posting perm and contract roles and general advice if you guys are interested?

If you are in the IT field and need work let me know (the only thing we do not really do is helpdesk support).

cheers:D

RM

[Mr Bigglesworth]

definitely interested. im currrently weighing up going back to IT or giving up a retail job that pays really well. any thoughts?

[kleph]

i have a question. how important, exactly, is spelling on one's resume?

[AntZ]

Damn kleph, I was about to ask that exact same question. :D

[Natfu]

"Rect" as in Rectum. "uiment" as in You I meant.

[Mr Recruiter]

i have a question. how important, exactly, is spelling on one's resume?

I look at your skills and experience over anything else. If there are mistakes everywhere in the resume it does get annoying, however I will not mark you off the list for it.

RM

[Evil Dan]

Spelling mistakes make baby Jesus cry.

[muppet]

I look at your skills and experience over anything else. If there are mistakes everywhere in the resume it does get annoying, however I will not mark you off the list for it.

RM
You may not, but more than likely other people will.

I know that skills are the most important thing relating to a job, but first impressions are the be all and end all at a job interview. You screw up that interview, and regardless of your skills, you won't get a second chance. If the interviewer thinks to themselves "this guy is an illiterate screwball" well hey, would you want to give him a job?

It is not a hard thing to do when you write up your resumes to run a spell check, or keep a dictionary handy to use as a reference. Nor is it an embarassing thing to ask someone else to have a look through it. You may have misworded a sentence, or punctuation in the wrong place, anything little like that can put a very picky, prospective employer off.

I used to write resumes.
I know my shit :p

You wouldn't go to a job interview with a stain on your shirt would you? Why then, would you think it's acceptable to hand over a stained resume? And that's exactly what spelling mistakes on a resume are, stains.

[Hired Goon]

Dear Mr Recruiter,

Get off my internet you commission hungry cunt popsicle.

regards,
Hired Goon

[kleph]

dear mr. recruiter. can you define "irony"?

[EvilMuppet]

Dear dumbass, "recuitment" "helpdesk" :(

[muppet]

Dear dumbass, "recuitment" "helpdesk" :(
awesome for picking those up :)

also, thread title: IT Rectuiment

this would be why he doesn't worry about other people's spelling mistakes.
He can't spell either.

[Mr Recruiter]

Dear Mr Recruiter,

Get off my internet you commission hungry cunt popsicle.

regards,
Hired Goon

As soon as someone comes on here to help out people that are looking for work or help you automatically think I am just after commission, it helps out both people involved.

I know some people in IT find it hard to get contracts etc so I thought I might make the jobs available (not advertised on seek) known.

[dwarfthrower]

I know some people in IT find it hard to get contracts etc so I thought I might make the jobs available (not advertised on seek) known.

Well why don't you do that instead of trolling the forums looking for people to add to your database.

[Springer]

yeah.. i work in heldpesk for a cold logistics company.. get me out :/

[BtrFly]

It was possibly a bad move to come onto a site - pimping your wares before knowing who these people are. They dont have much respect for recruiters. Especially ones that cant spell, or type, or proof read. They have a tendency to be a little bitey - as you have well found out by now.

My suggestion - either contribute nicely to the site - THEN start pimping your wares (or not - its nicer to not), or piss off and not bother.

Sincerely one recruiter (for only 5 more days!!!) to another

BtrFly

[dozer]

tendancy?

are there any recruiters that can spell?

[BtrFly]

happy now?

[The Avatar]

I want IT work.

I want out of retail.

However, I am unemployable in IT.

[kleph]

Sincerely one recruiter (for only 5 more days!!!) to another


now how about some punctuation?

[BtrFly]

now how about some punctuation?
if i did that then i wouldnt be one of the intarweb cool kids would i...

[Buffy]

Hey kids I think Mr Recruiter here did ask pirate if it was ok to post first, but he possibly should've mentioned that to you picky people lewl :P

/me salutes the flying monkeys! :D

[muppet]

always willing to lend a hand Buffy :)

[Pirate]

Ya , Mr Recruiter asked me nicely so be nice :)

[muppet]

ya mr recruiter should've told us that because with the influx of spamming fucktards lately, we're all a bit edgy :p

[Scumbag]

Dear Mr Recruiter,


I only accept full time positions, I refuse to work in the private sector, and I live in Sydney.

What have you got available for me atm ?

[Mr Recruiter]

Dear Mr Recruiter,


I only accept full time positions, I refuse to work in the private sector, and I live in Sydney.

What have you got available for me atm ?

If you can email me your skills and experience I can see what Sydney has available for you.

As mentioned, We have roles from testers to PM's and would need to know what you have been doing.

p.s. I did not want to come on here and spam that is why I asked Pirate first, sorry should have mentioned it guys.

...... just send me PM with details.

RM

[Hired Goon]

I stick to my original comment. I have nothing good to say about any IT recruitment agent or agency. It's just a matter of establishing the magnitude of their fuckedness.

In fact, I'll go one step further and say the whole IT industry is fucked and I regret ever getting into it. People - recruiters in particular are incapable of comprehending that technologies are all different flavours of the same thing. And then you get the nerds. The nerds who tell you that you can't install Oracle on windows 2000 server because it runs much more stably on Sun Solaris. Or the nerds who like to tell you acronyms and act as if they're intellectual genuises because they coded a web form in ASP.NET. Or the nerds who tell you "it's going to take me a few days" when you know damned well it only takes thirty seconds.

But wait, there's more. Then you get marginalised off as some sort of organisational leper and people come and say "um, my blackberry doesn't work, can you like, help me?" because of course, you're an IT guy! And a finance application isn't that different to a blackberry.

Scorn.

[dozer]

I refuse to work in the private sector

i didnt know anyone 'worked' in the public sector.

recruiters = sales people

[Holster]

Ok i'm taking over for a bit.

I know about a few Project Coordinator roles going in Melbourne.

So PM me if any of you fucking mongs are interested. K love you.

[kré]

can you recommend anything to a current helpdesk support person looking to get the fuck out of IT altogether, with no other experience or qualifications but needing to have a salary of $45k to match what he currently makes?

[evil]

But wait, there's more. Then you get marginalised off as some sort of organisational leper and people come and say "um, my blackberry doesn't work, can you like, help me?" because of course, you're an IT guy! And a finance application isn't that different to a blackberry.

Ain't that the truth !

[Natfu]

Ok i'm taking over for a bit.

I know about a few Project Coordinator roles going in Melbourne.

So PM me if any of you fucking mongs are interested. K love you.

Haha, I'd love to see a job ad on Seek like this.

[Mighty Midget]

Mr Recruiter , got anything in Melbourne for someone with some IT Admin experience?

[Blink]

As soon as someone comes on here to help out people that are looking for work or help you automatically think I am just after commission, it helps out both people involved.

I know some people in IT find it hard to get contracts etc so I thought I might make the jobs available (not advertised on seek) known.

I also work for a recruitment company that does quite a bit of IT work. Thankfully not a recruiter myself though. However I can seriously say that hawking any of my company's jobs on this site is something I would never contemplate. If someone asks for help getting a job, fine, I'll tell them I can put in a word for them in QLD. Using the site as another method of candidate sourcing - NO.

If Pirate is happy for you to post your jobs on the site, fine, go ahead. Just make sure to pay him the non-discounted Seek / Jobnet rate for each ad.

[Mr Recruiter]

I would need to see what sort and how much experience you have. send me a message if you like with some specific details and ill see what they have :D

[Mr Recruiter]

I also work for a recruitment company that does quite a bit of IT work. Thankfully not a recruiter myself though. However I can seriously say that hawking any of my company's jobs on this site is something I would never contemplate. If someone asks for help getting a job, fine, I'll tell them I can put in a word for them in QLD. Using the site as another method of candidate sourcing - NO.

If Pirate is happy for you to post your jobs on the site, fine, go ahead. Just make sure to pay him the non-discounted Seek / Jobnet rate for each ad.

If people want help I will help them, if they want a job that I have I will put them forward. No harm done!

[stinky]

I The nerds who tell you that you can't install Oracle on windows 2000 server because it runs much more stably on Sun Solaris.

That sounds fair enough to me. If the statement about Oracle running much more stably on Solaris than 2k server is true ( I'm not an oracle guy so i don't know ) then I would agree with the nerd completely. apart from the word "can't" should be "shouldn't".

I'm about to move a perforce server from windows 2k3 to linux (rhel4), why? because it runs a lot more stably and has much better performance under linux. In our test environment I see a 200% performance improvement on identical hardware ( Dual Xeon, 2Gb RAM, RAID10 SCSI).

If you're going to be investing a lot of money ( and time ) in a product you should always install it on it's optimal environment.

[Farnk]

Recruiters?
HAH!
Pimp agents more likely..

Bottom feeders in the slime and festering filth of the sorry cesspool that is the IT 'industry'

Heh, 'IT Industry', that's an oxymoron.

Yep, you guessed it, bad week at work. Need more alcohol to make the bad voices go away.

[Hired Goon]

That sounds fair enough to me. If the statement about Oracle running much more stably on Solaris than 2k server is true ( I'm not an oracle guy so i don't know ) then I would agree with the nerd completely. apart from the word "can't" should be "shouldn't".

I'm about to move a perforce server from windows 2k3 to linux (rhel4), why? because it runs a lot more stably and has much better performance under linux. In our test environment I see a 200% performance improvement on identical hardware ( Dual Xeon, 2Gb RAM, RAID10 SCSI).

If you're going to be investing a lot of money ( and time ) in a product you should always install it on it's optimal environment.

I see your point. But, in this situation we had a 5 year old Sun server (can't remember model number) and it ran like shite. We floated a proposal to upgrade to wintel with a newer server (because the Sun Solaris quote came in way too high), and the DBA kicked up a fuss that it wouldn't be as stable. At the same time our test server, which was Wintel was running heaps faster than production. My point is simply that the DBA didn't give a stuff that the users were being inconvenienced by shitty old technology, and that is a common failing of the IT "industry"

[stinky]

I see your point. :)

Tell the DBA to worry about his select statements and let real people take care of the rest :)

[jak]

I look at your skills and experience over anything else. If there are mistakes everywhere in the resume it does get annoying, however I will not mark you off the list for it.

RM

I most certainly would. Whenever I see a CV with spelling errors, my first reaction is to shift-delete. There is *zero* excuse for a spelling error in a CV.

Even more so in the IT industry. If an IT specialist cannot press F7 in their Word doc, then I don't want him working on tenders/writing specifications or design docs etc.

[ThraX]

damn right!