They already know who they want to hire, but they have some kind of policy requiring them to post the position anyhow.
This is one of the reasons why I don't talk to Microsoft recruiters. Hiring manager wants to hire his beer-drinking buddy. HR requires five other candidates to be considered in addition to beer-drinking buddy. I had five Microsoft recruiters stringing me about for a month in 2005. I was so ticked that I held my cellphone conversations with the recruiters inside the men restroom at lunch time, where auto-flush toilets kept echoing in the background. Took them a while to take a hint.
I can't tell you how many times a recruiter called with an "urgent" job position, expecting me to drop everything at once to make myself available, and finding out that the hiring manager went on vacation.
If somebody wants to broadcast their wealth, then they get to suffer the consequences.
That's my older brother. He has a house he bought at the top of the real estate market with the down payment from his wife's 401k and carries an underwater mortgage. Leases a new car every three years. Buys $180 designer jeans. Credit cards are maxed out. He can't retire because he can't sell his house, so he must keep working. He's living the American Dream and keeping up with the Jones.
I do I.T. support contract work. Most of my documentation is done in a word processor and data is manipulated in a spreadsheet. What office application is installed by default on my Windows system? Drumroll, please! It's Microsoft Office.
The real problem is recruiters expect to find three years in each of the last three positions and assume that you want to continue doing what you done before. I've rewritten my resume 20 different ways when I was unemployed from 2009 to 2010. I couldn't escape the fact that my last three positions were in help desk. I then spent several years doing labor-intensive I.T. jobs like PC refresh jobs and building out data centers. Recruiters complained that my updated resume lacks "focus" because my last three jobs weren't help desk jobs.
With the baby boomers retiring en masse, the I.T. industry is expecting to have a critical shortage of skilled workers in the next 20 years. All those computers, software and robotics still need workers to maintain them in the future. Not all those workers will be imported from Southeast Asia.
A potential employer can request a credit report, especially if the job involves money directly or indirectly. PayPal requested a credit check when I applied for a tech job in 2014 because they are technically a bank. Despite having to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2011 after being out of work for two years, my credit score was within acceptable range. I didn't get the job because someone else had a certification that I didn't have.
The job search sites has my five-page resume that list 18 years of employment history. I only submit my two-page resume that list three years employment history to recruiters and hiring managers. My longer resume is available by request, which recruiters love but hiring managers hate.
My current I.T. support contract is with the government. At 46-years-old, I'm one of the youngest on the team. Most of my coworkers are in their 50's and 60's. The work is more demanding than a Fortune 500 company, but it pays well, I get federal holidays off, three weeks of paid time off, and a full benefit package. The only thing that's missing is a gold watch and pension.
I was a lead video game tester in my 30's and the 20-something supervisors assigned the older testers (30's, 40's and 50's) to my group, who expected to be treated like adults and not micromanaged to death. Once I gave them their assignments for the day, I trusted them to deliver the results and let me know if they have problems. We were pros, behaved like pros, and we got the job done. Can't say the same thing about the younger testers fresh out of high school or college.
But what I have run across is if you're unemployed then you're no good - if you're any good, you'd have a job.
I was out of work for two years (2009-2010), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2011. For two-and-a-half years I was told by recruiters that I was unemployable and hiring managers that I was overqualified for minimum wage jobs. Why? Because everyone looked at my resume, saw that I've done help desk support for the last three years prior to being unemployed, didn't have any help desk openings, and wouldn't consider me for any other kind of work as they ASSSUMED that I wanted to continue doing help desk. I didn't get back into the job market until I found jobs that NEEDED workers to do the work.
I had SD slots on several of my computers but I never bought an SD card to put one in. Probably because I associate SD cards with cameras and not PC boot devices.
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They already know who they want to hire, but they have some kind of policy requiring them to post the position anyhow.
This is one of the reasons why I don't talk to Microsoft recruiters. Hiring manager wants to hire his beer-drinking buddy. HR requires five other candidates to be considered in addition to beer-drinking buddy. I had five Microsoft recruiters stringing me about for a month in 2005. I was so ticked that I held my cellphone conversations with the recruiters inside the men restroom at lunch time, where auto-flush toilets kept echoing in the background. Took them a while to take a hint.
I've been employed in my current I.T. contract job as a computer security specialist for the last 14 months.
The last time I looked at my Rolodex I had the names and email address of 800+ recruiters.
Here's a hint: Great Recession.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recession
I can't tell you how many times a recruiter called with an "urgent" job position, expecting me to drop everything at once to make myself available, and finding out that the hiring manager went on vacation.
I guess you don't have much experience working at Fortune 500 companies. Choice is usually not an option.
If somebody wants to broadcast their wealth, then they get to suffer the consequences.
That's my older brother. He has a house he bought at the top of the real estate market with the down payment from his wife's 401k and carries an underwater mortgage. Leases a new car every three years. Buys $180 designer jeans. Credit cards are maxed out. He can't retire because he can't sell his house, so he must keep working. He's living the American Dream and keeping up with the Jones.
I must be doing something wrong! I've been business casual for the last 10+ years. The only time I dress up as a slob is at home.
I do I.T. support contract work. Most of my documentation is done in a word processor and data is manipulated in a spreadsheet. What office application is installed by default on my Windows system? Drumroll, please! It's Microsoft Office.
The real problem is recruiters expect to find three years in each of the last three positions and assume that you want to continue doing what you done before. I've rewritten my resume 20 different ways when I was unemployed from 2009 to 2010. I couldn't escape the fact that my last three positions were in help desk. I then spent several years doing labor-intensive I.T. jobs like PC refresh jobs and building out data centers. Recruiters complained that my updated resume lacks "focus" because my last three jobs weren't help desk jobs.
If I'm not lying about my resume, I don't have to worry about it.
Which is why, as a Generation Xer, I hate both the Baby Boomers and Millennials.
With the baby boomers retiring en masse, the I.T. industry is expecting to have a critical shortage of skilled workers in the next 20 years. All those computers, software and robotics still need workers to maintain them in the future. Not all those workers will be imported from Southeast Asia.
If you're applying for a tech job, you're expected to know Microsoft Office. Word for documentation and Excel for everything else.
If I was caught lying on my resume, I doubt I would have my current job as a computer security specialist.
A potential employer can request a credit report, especially if the job involves money directly or indirectly. PayPal requested a credit check when I applied for a tech job in 2014 because they are technically a bank. Despite having to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2011 after being out of work for two years, my credit score was within acceptable range. I didn't get the job because someone else had a certification that I didn't have.
Because the last three positions were all help desk jobs and lying on my resume would be unethical.
The job search sites has my five-page resume that list 18 years of employment history. I only submit my two-page resume that list three years employment history to recruiters and hiring managers. My longer resume is available by request, which recruiters love but hiring managers hate.
My current I.T. support contract is with the government. At 46-years-old, I'm one of the youngest on the team. Most of my coworkers are in their 50's and 60's. The work is more demanding than a Fortune 500 company, but it pays well, I get federal holidays off, three weeks of paid time off, and a full benefit package. The only thing that's missing is a gold watch and pension.
I was a lead video game tester in my 30's and the 20-something supervisors assigned the older testers (30's, 40's and 50's) to my group, who expected to be treated like adults and not micromanaged to death. Once I gave them their assignments for the day, I trusted them to deliver the results and let me know if they have problems. We were pros, behaved like pros, and we got the job done. Can't say the same thing about the younger testers fresh out of high school or college.
But what I have run across is if you're unemployed then you're no good - if you're any good, you'd have a job.
I was out of work for two years (2009-2010), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2011. For two-and-a-half years I was told by recruiters that I was unemployable and hiring managers that I was overqualified for minimum wage jobs. Why? Because everyone looked at my resume, saw that I've done help desk support for the last three years prior to being unemployed, didn't have any help desk openings, and wouldn't consider me for any other kind of work as they ASSSUMED that I wanted to continue doing help desk. I didn't get back into the job market until I found jobs that NEEDED workers to do the work.
That's like the USB FLOPPY drive that I have in the back of my closet? I don't need another one of those.
It's a prime number between 20 and 25.
I had SD slots on several of my computers but I never bought an SD card to put one in. Probably because I associate SD cards with cameras and not PC boot devices.
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