{"id":8274,"date":"2012-09-28T19:06:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T18:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8274"},"modified":"2012-09-28T19:52:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T18:52:21","slug":"recruitment-twats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8274","title":{"rendered":"Recruitment twats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think we need to rename recruitment consultants.<\/p>\n<p>Henceforth, they need to be called &#8216;recruitment twats&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I just had this email from one such recruitment twat:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi Brennig<br \/>\n<em>(they get 25 bonus points for getting my name right)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I came across an old copy of your CV on our database and wanted to<br \/>\nfind out what your current situation is. I have a number of Developer<br \/>\nroles on my desk right now that I think might be of interest salary<br \/>\nranging from \u00a325k for a junior, \u00a340k for a mid level developer and<br \/>\n\u00a360k for a senior\/lead developer.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re available and interested in new opportunities, please get<br \/>\nback to me with an updated copy of your CV along with your salary<br \/>\nexpectations as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Kind regards<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I responded to the recruitment twat thus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thank you for emailing me.<\/p>\n<p>I am surprised that you say you came across an old copy of my CV because you go on to talk about an entire range of jobs that I&#8217;m plainly unskilled for and unsuited to.<\/p>\n<p>I attach my CV for real consideration, rather than surreal consideration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t figure out if recruitment twats are becoming more incompetent or becoming more lazy.<\/p>\n<p>Guesses?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we need to rename recruitment consultants. Henceforth, they need to be called &#8216;recruitment twats&#8217;. I just had this email from one such recruitment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}